[arachne] Re: TRUSTED APM'S & RELATED MATTERS
- From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:47:46 -0500
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Hi Brian,
Since something went wrong the 1st time.....
I grabbed my saved copy and resent it to you.
(let's hope it gets through this time)
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:08:27 -0400, Brian C. Murphy wrote:
> Dear Glenn:
> We seem to be having email communication problems for reasons I do not
> understand.
> I received your generous offer to custom make me an APM and replied to
> it about 24 hours later when I had time to consider the issues that the
> apm would have to deal with. I have just now received your email
> saying that you did not receive my reply (which I sent to your "home"
> email address).
> Immediately below, I will attach a copy of my reply to you in the hope
> of getting our discussion back on track.
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> Subject: A190J1 DOWNLOADS OF FILES WITHOUT INTERVENTION
> Date: 03-Aug-07 at 12:42
> From: Brian C. Murphy, 110271,3632
> TO: GLENN MCCORKLE,INTERNET:GLENNMCCISNET.COM
> GLENN,
> Thank you for your generous offer to custom make an APM for me that will
> send all downloads to the download directory without operator
> intervention (or words to that effect).
> I hope I am not on a wrong track again, as I have been off and on in the
> past, but in a nutshell, I want A190J1's download procedures to operate
> in the same manner as A170R3's download procedures.
> NOW A170R3's download procedure would send 99% of all downloaded files
> of all types direct to the local download directory (in my case because
> I always run on a RAM drive, it sends them to the download directory in
> the ram drive). When I unload the ram drive at the end of my Internet
> session, my batch software then copies everything on the download
> directory of the RAM drive to the G:\ARACHARD\ directory of my hard
> drive, which is the general area from which I launch Arachne and is the
> directory on which my browser resides. (To be more precise, I launch
> Arachne from G:\ARACRAM\ and thence to G:ARACRAM on the RAM drive.)
> There do seem to be a few odd types of files which A170 would not
> properly download to anywhere, especially at the abondonware web site.
> Having said that, I would like A190 to automatically send all
> downloadable files of all types to the local download directory.
> That would include all of the following file types, as well as any
> others not named herein:
> ZIP (& all other compressed files of all types from all operating
> systems including: DOS, Windows, Linux and Mac.)
> The files you mentioned as examples: ZIP, MPG, MP3, WAV;
> All types of graphics files including: JPG, BMP, GIF, PCX, ETC.
> All the types of files that happen to reside at this moment on my
> G:\DOWNLOAD directory including: PDF, TXT, EXE, COM, BAT, CMD, LBR, ARK,
> TCP, LZT, LZH, APM, UNARJ, MAK, C, XLS.
> I hope that does not unnecessarily complicate matters from your
> standpoint, but basically, if a particular type of file exists, and is
> downloadable from somewhere, I want to be able to download it (which,
> with a very few exceptions is what the A170R3 download procedure would
> do).
> Perhaps there is a way in which you could tell A190J1 to download any
> file it is presented with for download to the local download directory.
> I should note that, for me, the G:\DOWNLOAD\ directory is just a file
> collection place. I store recently downloaded files there until I have
> time to go through them, delete the useless ones, and archive the useful
> ones to a set of LS120 disks organized by file function.
> Brian Murphy
> BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> In closing, Glenn, I would note that I did not receive an APM from you.
> I hope the foregoing will get us back on track as I was very much
> looking forward to being able to use A190J1 with A170R3 download
> procedures.
> Thank you,
> Brian Murphy
> BCMURPHY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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