Mirroring your Zoomer!

rdong@chow.mat.jhu.edu
Tue, 2 Apr 1996 18:28:30 GMT

I have been writing a utility for backing up the content of my Zoomer to a
UNIX machine. My application is called ZFTPD and looks like a real ftp
server to an ftp client (such as MIRROR), but sends file listing and
transferring request to the zoomer.

I started from a Linux port of the BSD ftpd, striped some irrelevant
functionalities (such as passwd check, globing, restarting) and retained
(almost verbatimly) the command parsing and networking code. I replaced
the file handling code by those in XTOZ by Keith Williamson
(keith@primenet.com).

Here is the current state of the development.

It compiles and runs cleanly under Linux and Solaris, although I have only
tested the Zoomer related functions under Linux (my zoomer cable is too
short for the Solaris machine 3000 miles away :-)

Listing and retrieving from Zoomer works. I used MIRROR (A very handy tool
for transferring a large number file) to down load the whole B:\GEOWORKS
directory recursively at once.

The code is still fragile at this stage. But if anyone is interested, feel
free to contact me for a preview. I am try to do better error handling and
recovering before I add code to transfer files to the Zoomer. I also like
to add UUCP locking before release to the public.

Regards,

Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} 2760 Kelvin Ave., #3211
rdong@chow.mat.jhu.edu Irvine, CA 92714
(714)752-0855(H)