Kbase 15962: Getting patches from the Bedford ftp site
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
13/01/2000 |
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Getting patches from the Bedford ftp site
WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS
This knowledge base entry is an alternative to kbase #13869, Steps
for using ftp between Bedford and the customer site.
Since patches are so large, we used to put them on pscgate as
compressed tar files. However, some customers have problems
retrieving them because, even as compressed tar files, they can be
25MB in size. To try to eliminate this problem, patches may be
placed on pscgate in 1MB pieces, along with two files <patch>.list
and rejoin, to help you retrieve them. <patch> is the name of the
patch you are trying to retrieve; for example, 7.3c11. In order to
retrieve <patch>, do the following:
1) ftp pscgate.progress.com /* IP address is 192.77.186.1 */
2) username: customer
password: nmf4u
3) cd /pub/<subdir> /* <subdir> is the sub-directory where
you were told to retrieve <patch>. */
4) bin /* ALWAYS use binary mode for transfers
5) get <patch>.list /* file contains names of patch pieces */
6) get rejoin /* script to reconstruct <patch> as a
tar file. */
7) prompt /* toggle interactive prompt to off. */
8) mget <patch>.SPLIT* /* If this is unsuccessful, you may have
to use get on individual files in
<patch>.list. If you use mget, verify
that you have all the files shown in
<patch>.list. */
9) quit /* command to exit ftp */
10) rejoin <patch> /* This script will leave an uncompressed
tar file in the current directory. */
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 15962