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| faq:files [2023/04/10 17:12] – 3.19 is no longer the development version digital man | faq:files [2023/04/10 17:21] (current) – [Adding Files] Update link to addfiles (not module script, not native util). Add mention of zmodem/ftp upload too. digital man |
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| The easiest way is to use the [[module:ADDFILES]] utility script which can automatically | The easiest way add files to the Synchronet file databases (Filebases), in bulk, is to use the [[module:Addfiles]] utility script which can automatically |
| detect and import embedded descriptions (e.g. ''FILE_ID.DIZ''). | detect and import embedded descriptions (e.g. ''FILE_ID.DIZ''). |
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| You may also use the '';UPLOAD'' sysop command via the terminal server to add files from the local file system into the file database. Using this command, you will be prompted to enter file descriptions, but if the files being added have embedded file descriptions (e.g. ''FILE_ID.DIZ'') then they will be used for extended file descriptions. | You may also use the '';UPLOAD'' sysop command via the terminal server to add files from the local file system into the file database. Using this command, you will be prompted to enter file descriptions, but if the files being added have embedded file descriptions (e.g. ''FILE_ID.DIZ'') then these descriptions will be used for extended file descriptions automatically. |
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| | There's also the option to upload the files into the databases via a traditional file transfer protocol (e.g. ZMODEM) or [[server:FTP]], but this is unnecessary if the files are already on the local file system (disk/partition) and wasteful of time and file storage, so is not normally used by a sysop to add local files to a filebase. |
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| ===== Long Filenames ===== | ===== Long Filenames ===== |
