Update on info-mac uploads browser

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Update on info-mac uploads browser

Post by Info-Mac » October 9th, 1992, 9:00 am

Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/comm/term/qvt.hqx

This is a slightly improved version of the skim Unix program recently
posted by Craig Nevill-Manning . This version
also inserts the necessary 'cd' and 'get' commands so that you can feed
the resulting script directly into FTP.

I have sumex-aim in my .netrc file, so that all I need to do after the
skim is to type the following command to get the tagged files:
ftp sumex-aim.stanford.edu 's program description:
>
>I wrote this quick Unix program for browsing info-mac digests. I try to keep
>up with the new uploads to sumex, but it's a tedious, repetitive process to
>actually download the stuff I want. This C program scans a digest (or several)
>in a file or files given on the command line for the [*] denoting an upload
>notice, and prints out the description. Type y if you want to download it, and



This is a new version of skim.c, a C program to ease the process of
downloading programs listed in the info-mac digest.

The latest modifications allow the site to be changed to a mirror site, and
the directory accordingly. Thanks to Robert Watkins ([email protected])
for these additions!

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local directory to be used and to set your e-mail address.
You'll also have to add the directory to look into at the mirror site

Then compile with cc -o skim skim.c -lcurses -ltermcap
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