[REBOL] Re: Anyone have a file archiver like RIP -- that does not DO the file?
From: arolls:bigpond:au at: 28-Jun-2001 13:07
> RIP.r is ok for most things...
>
> However, need a file archiver that
> I can use to un-compress huge group of files
> after FTP-ing to web-server.
>
> Don't want to put the file in CGI-BIN and have to mark
> executable... that is the way a RIP file would have
> to work.
>
> Anybody done something like that?
>
> -Doug
I don't but I suggest modifying rip.r:
It should watch a special directory,
polling every number of seconds.
You can call it "compressed/", for eg.
When you upload some files into this
directory, they are noticed by rip.r
and moved to another directory to
be decompressed ("decompressed/"),
and the compressed archive deleted.
You then change directory to
decompressed/
to get the files you
are interested in.
So the overall process for the user is:
1) upload to one location
2) download from another location
You have just one program running on
the server, too.
Anton.