HyperCopy - Grab All Of It!!!
Copyright (C) by Wen-Jhy Sheen since Jun 1996(BIG5 Version Is Here)
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News |
Graphic User Interface modules are released now.
HyperCopy v2.1g is available now!
New features or modifications in this version:
- New GUI module HyperCopy Commander (hcopycmd) - an optional module. Hcopycmd accepts drag-and-drop operation, so you can drag URL or file location from your Web browser, File Manager, or Windows NT explorer into hcopycmd's window. Hcopycmd will call hcopy to complete its job. Also, hcopycmd can manage many hcopy tasks at the same time. All GUI, no console window will be popuped.
- New GUI config utility HyperCopy Config (hcopycfg) to help users to config hcopy's command-line configuration via window operation. This is also an optional module.
- More elegant gauge display, the refresh period will be limited to be larger than 1 second. The gauge will not update too frequently to influence the physical transfer rate under a high speed transfer.
- -R option can be saved by -CFG now.
- The leading character of gauge display is changed from '@' to '~' character.
- -G option wasn't saved by -CFG, fixed now.
- When FTP, if the filename part in remote_URL contains space character, it failed. Fixed now.
- When NNTP, subjects of some decoded files were not listed correctly. Fixed now.
- When NNTP, -X and -Y didn't work on some mails. Fixed now.
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Introduction |
If you have ever experienced MS-DOS's copy or Unix's cp commands, you might be impressed by their simplicity and functionality - their are easy and work well. As to Internet, abundant information resource is hidden there. We may sometimes need a tool to download files instantly as if we perform a copy or cp command we usually do, rather than download it via a huge monster application like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.
Yes, here, with nowadays web and traditional Internet technologies embodied, HyperCopy (abbreviated as hcopy) provides users with a copy-like usage and web's URL locating method to help you get what you want immediately from the Internet - no matter how many of HTML pages, files in a FTP site, or even files in a USENET newsgroup (like one in alt.binaries series) . Just upload/download them with a simple hcopy command. For sample commands like:
hcopy http://nti.dj.net.tw/internet/index.html /ntipages/ -r
hcopy ftp://nctuccca.edu.tw/archives:2121/windows/win*.zip /winsock/
hcopy nntp://news.eagles.net.tw/alt.binaries.sounds.midi.rockHcopy can download files or pages from a HTTP or FTP source recursively. Which means with hcopy, you can download a whole sub-directory, even a whole site of files into your storage devices. hcopy is smart enough to compare the time-stamps of remote files with locals' to see whether to update local files or not. Especially, when downloading web pages, hcopy will relocate all absolute URL pathes inside HTML pages into relative ones, which makes it convenient for user to browse it locally with a browser like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.
One of hcopy's important features is that it won't give up easily! Before a file is uploaded/downloaded successfully, hcopy will keep on trying until 1) the remote server is down, or 2) the network is down, or 3) the user has stopped hcopy. This is a necessary design for the untrusty Internet.
By the side of Netnews, hcopy is capable of decoding any possible files inside a newsgroup. MIME, BASE64, and UU decoding are supported. Hcopy also remember messages that hcopy ever processed, and never touch them in the newsgroup for twice.
Hcopy supports proxy servers, which means if your computer or LAN is shielded by a firewall or a proxy server, all you have to do is tell hcopy about this, and hcopy can get through it.
As a command-line utility, hcopy can be executed easily via a system timing event, such as Windows NT's built-in Schedule service. Hcopy can produce log files, which record everything happened during its executing period. All of these make it possible to perform an unmanned and trusty upload/download. Especially, users can select to upload/download unmannedly during midnight or a cut-price period to save time and money.
Hcopy has been tested and improved for over one year. Its reliability and efficiency has been proved to be good. We think hcopy's intelligent uploading/downloading ability should give you a whole new experience of hunting files over the vast Internet sea.
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Features |
Hcopy's main features include the following:
- Pure command-line utility, especially suited for timing and unmanned uploading/downloading, or a remote controlling environment, such as Remote Command Service provided by Windows NT's Resource Kit.
- Optional auxiliary GUI modules are available.
- Uniform resource locating, hcopy implements the URL standard of World Wide Web.
- HTTP,FTP, and NNTP protocols are fully supported, including to logon the remote server with a given user ID and password, or anonymously.
- HTTP supports failure-recovery feature automatically. Hcopy will re-try from the broken point if an error occurs. This will save much re-transmission cost.
- To recursively upload/download the whole directory structure to/from the remote server
- URL patterns with wildcards ('*' and '?' mixed) are supported to filter out un-wanted or to include wanted pathes (files and directories) .
- Never upload/download a file which is un-modified or ever been uploaded/downloaded before.
- URL pathes inside HTML pages or images outside the source directory can be relocated into relative and compact form to facilitate user's local browsing.
- High fault-tolerance, never easily give up uploading/downloading a file, it always keeps on trying.
- Hcopy decodes files inside newsgroups. Also, a accompanying list, which describes filenames, lengthes, and subjects quoted from the original messages, is generated for users' reference.
- Support proxy server, such as Wingate.
- Can be executed in a system schedule or unmannedly. Also, a log file can be generated to record the progress during the executing period.
- Hcopy has been tested and improved for long time. Its reliability and efficiency has been proved to be good.
System Requirements |
Hcopy is a low consumer to system resource:
- Windows NT 3.51/4.0 or Windows 95
- Intel platform, CPU 486-66 or above
- System memory 8 MB or more installed
- TCP/IP protocol demanded
Installation |
Hcopy is composed of only one executive file - hcopy.exe. It needs no setting at all. All you have to do is place hcopy.exe into a directory which can be found in the environment variable PATH. Then you can run it under any directory directly. For example, put it in the installed directory of Windows NT (such as C:\WINNT) or the installed directory of Windows 95 (such as C:\WINDOWS).
Register It |
Please read the file order.txt, which is accompanied with HyperCopy's software package.
Copyright by Wen-Jyh Sheen since Sep 1997 ; last modified on Jan 1998