Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:59:06 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to access at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/ It's interesting when one clicks on the graphic at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-1/matrix6.htm that says, www: One goes to http://www.mbusa.com/index.do, which is titled, Mercedes-Benz, Home of Mercedes-Benz Luxury Automobiles. You can see what market they're aiming for, and it's not people like us on the Mercedes List. Craig
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
In the good ol' days, MB was a Luxury Automoble. Yep, this is wer we went. On 4/6/07, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:59:06 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to access at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/ It's interesting when one clicks on the graphic at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-1/matrix6.htm that says, www: One goes to http://www.mbusa.com/index.do, which is titled, Mercedes-Benz, Home of Mercedes-Benz Luxury Automobiles. You can see what market they're aiming for, and it's not people like us on the Mercedes List. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- Hans Neureiter, Houston, TX '82 300SD, '95 E300D
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:59:06 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- again, this is just an experiment. Your experiment fails in a number of places because of M$'s use of backslashes instead of slashes for directory level separators. The Flash presentations starting at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-1/matrix6.htm and ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-2/matrix6.htm work very nicely, but once you get to selecting something (and don't hit your browser's back button because you'll have to re-load the Flash presentation), like 300D '81 on W123-2/matrix6.htm and then the maintenance manual (which then takes you to ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-2/main_81_3d.htm) and then Maintenance System Sheet, you get an error message that says, 550/pub/W123-2/Maintenance\sheets81.pdf: No such file or directory That means you have the name of the file, but then you need to open another tab and search for the file. Craig
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Well other than Smarts at 15K or so pricing starts at 30K. But what is more interesting to most list members is what pricing will be like 20 years out on these vehicles given the average age of benzes on the list. My 83 wagon was deemed Mercedes-Benz Luxury Automobile, not Joe 6 pack Hauler... If I recall pricing was something under $45,000Cdn in 83 for mine. What would an 83 chevy wagon have been, anyone know? mmm, ebay claims 1983 Volvo 245DL Wagon $500 ask, $1500 buy it now. 83 mercedes wagon btn is $4950 (rebuilt engine (one wonders)). On Apr 6, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Craig McCluskey wrote: Mercedes-Benz, Home of Mercedes-Benz Luxury Automobiles. You can see what market they're aiming for, and it's not people like us on the Mercedes List. Craig John 1983 300TDt 368k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac) 1990's 300TDt 172k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac) 1993 500SEL 180k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac)
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Craig: Yea, I know the Flash doesn't come across as clean. But the important things, the pdf files, are ripe for the pickin'. On the CDs, one runs the Matrix6, which gives a nice Benz running across the screen. I guess someone could download everything on the two CDs, burn the CDs and have a working W123 library. But that would be a lot of effort - and illegal. ;-) Don On 4/6/07, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:59:06 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- again, this is just an experiment. Your experiment fails in a number of places because of M$'s use of backslashes instead of slashes for directory level separators. The Flash presentations starting at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-1/matrix6.htm and ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-2/matrix6.htm work very nicely, but once you get to selecting something (and don't hit your browser's back button because you'll have to re-load the Flash presentation), like 300D '81 on W123-2/matrix6.htm and then the maintenance manual (which then takes you to ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-2/main_81_3d.htm) and then Maintenance System Sheet, you get an error message that says, 550/pub/W123-2/Maintenance\sheets81.pdf: No such file or directory That means you have the name of the file, but then you need to open another tab and search for the file. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 20:12:11 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig: Yea, I know the Flash doesn't come across as clean. But the important things, the pdf files, are ripe for the pickin'. On the CDs, one runs the Matrix6, which gives a nice Benz running across the screen. I guess someone could download everything on the two CDs, burn the CDs and have a working W123 library. But that would be a lot of effort - and illegal. Are these the CDs one gets for something like $20, as was mentioned awhile back? Not worth the effort for that price. Craig
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Well, the originals came from eBay and certainly weren't factory. A wise man would learn what pdf he needs for a particular job and acquire that one. On 4/6/07, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 20:12:11 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig: Yea, I know the Flash doesn't come across as clean. But the important things, the pdf files, are ripe for the pickin'. On the CDs, one runs the Matrix6, which gives a nice Benz running across the screen. I guess someone could download everything on the two CDs, burn the CDs and have a working W123 library. But that would be a lot of effort - and illegal. Are these the CDs one gets for something like $20, as was mentioned awhile back? Not worth the effort for that price. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Averaging about 10kbps - wonder how many users are on your ftp site? A wise man would learn what pdf he needs for a particular job and acquire that one. -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Just ran LAST in terminal -- two in anonymous FTP. On 4/6/07, OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Averaging about 10kbps - wonder how many users are on your ftp site? A wise man would learn what pdf he needs for a particular job and acquire that one. -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
But, network monitor shows average send speed of 66KB/s, currently 82KB/s. On 4/6/07, OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Averaging about 10kbps - wonder how many users are on your ftp site? A wise man would learn what pdf he needs for a particular job and acquire that one. -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Sorry, didn't scroll down far enough. Five IPs are there under anonymous. That explains what you are seeing. On 4/6/07, OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Averaging about 10kbps - wonder how many users are on your ftp site? A wise man would learn what pdf he needs for a particular job and acquire that one. -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Welcome to browsing the CD's in Linux. On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:15:35 -0500, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:59:06 -0500 LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- again, this is just an experiment. Your experiment fails in a number of places because of M$'s use of backslashes instead of slashes for directory level separators. The Flash presentations starting at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-1/matrix6.htm and ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-2/matrix6.htm work very nicely, but once you get to selecting something (and don't hit your browser's back button because you'll have to re-load the Flash presentation), like 300D '81 on W123-2/matrix6.htm and then the maintenance manual (which then takes you to ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-2/main_81_3d.htm) and then Maintenance System Sheet, you get an error message that says, 550/pub/W123-2/Maintenance\sheets81.pdf: No such file or directory That means you have the name of the file, but then you need to open another tab and search for the file. Craig -- Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark '87 300SDL (271,xxx mi) head case? '83 300SD (242 kmi) for sale '82 300CD (163 kmi) '82 300D (74 kmi) getting donor engine '85 300D (280,176) parts car
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:33:44 -0500 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to browsing the CD's in Linux. If they used text files, I would say one could copy everything to one's disk and then correct the paths called, but with Flash, which I presume is binary, that probably won't work. Craig
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
if I had flash creater, I'd recreate the flash file with Linux/web ok file paths. Luther On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:57:11 -0500, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:33:44 -0500 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to browsing the CD's in Linux. If they used text files, I would say one could copy everything to one's disk and then correct the paths called, but with Flash, which I presume is binary, that probably won't work. Craig -- Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark '87 300SDL (271,xxx mi) head case? '83 300SD (242 kmi) for sale '82 300CD (163 kmi) '82 300D (74 kmi) getting donor engine '85 300D (280,176) parts car
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Naw, the flash (matrix6) is just the smoke and mirrors for the front end. Easily bypassed. On 4/6/07, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:33:44 -0500 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to browsing the CD's in Linux. If they used text files, I would say one could copy everything to one's disk and then correct the paths called, but with Flash, which I presume is binary, that probably won't work. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Your experiment fails in a number of places because of M$'s use of
backslashes instead of slashes for directory level separators.
For those of you running Mac OSX, you can use this little script
I wrote for my HD installations. You just run it in the right
directory and it makes long names that include backslashes (which
in Unix are just another character; in fact, the only 'special'
characters of the 256 in Unix are '/' and NULL). I called it
'fixlinks'. After you run it the stuff all just works.
-- Jim
#!/bin/sh
# Because the Flash garbage on the Mac butchers pathnames
# (uses backslashes instead of slashes in URL's) we can patch
# around this by making hard links to messed-up names for all
# the files that are properly found in subdirectories.
TMP=/tmp/$$
cd program || { echo Required directory 'program' not found in '.';
exit 1; }
find . -name \*.pdf -print | sed -e [EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@ $TMP
$TMP perl \
-e while () { \
-e chomp; \
-e \$from = \$_; \
-e \$to = \$_; \
-e \$to =~ s@/@[EMAIL PROTECTED]; \
-e link \$from, \$to; \
-e }
rm $TMP
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
It's down at the moment. Shifted OS from PCLinuxOS to Mepis SOHO server. Am setting things back up right now. On 4/7/07, OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works just as it should under XP. Ended up with 50 - 60 kbps today. -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:29:38 -0500 OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works just as it should under XP. That's because M$'s browsers substitute the standard / for the non-standard \ whenever they see it. Craig
[MBZ] FTP experiment
Just for kicks, I put up an FTP server this morning and loaded on the data from the two W123 CDs. You should be able to access at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/ This of course is not an invitation to view or download copyrighted material, etc. etc. etc. Viewing works best if you use something like Firefox, downloading (which of course would be illegal) would work much better using real a real client. This data might disappear at any time -- again, this is just an experiment. -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Works well. About 25 seconds for the 3.72MB file ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-2/Engine/617/30-300.pdf -- Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark '87 300SDL (271,xxx mi) '83 300SD (242 kmi) For Sale '82 300CD (164 kmi) '82 300D (74 kmi) getting '85 donor engine '85 300D (280,176) parts car/donor engine Quoting LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just for kicks, I put up an FTP server this morning and loaded on the data from the two W123 CDs. You should be able to access at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/ This of course is not an invitation to view or download copyrighted material, etc. etc. etc. Viewing works best if you use something like Firefox, downloading (which of course would be illegal) would work much better using real a real client. This data might disappear at any time -- again, this is just an experiment. -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
Re: [MBZ] FTP experiment
Good. On 4/6/07, Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works well. About 25 seconds for the 3.72MB file ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/W123-2/Engine/617/30-300.pdf -- Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark '87 300SDL (271,xxx mi) '83 300SD (242 kmi) For Sale '82 300CD (164 kmi) '82 300D (74 kmi) getting '85 donor engine '85 300D (280,176) parts car/donor engine Quoting LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just for kicks, I put up an FTP server this morning and loaded on the data from the two W123 CDs. You should be able to access at ftp://don.homelinux.net/pub/ This of course is not an invitation to view or download copyrighted material, etc. etc. etc. Viewing works best if you use something like Firefox, downloading (which of course would be illegal) would work much better using real a real client. This data might disappear at any time -- again, this is just an experiment. -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- LT Don The Crazy Coastie
