Very often I have seen a file called ls-lR.txt in the root of an FTP server, which is exactly the result of the UNIX command: ls -lR > ls-lR.txt run from the root directory of the server. The equivalent in Windows/DOS is: dir /s > filelist.txt --Mark On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Brian Willoughby wrote:

[ I will not interfere with how to organise the server, but there's [ one thing that I think is important. Directories or not, I suggest [ that we should have a sort of index. Perhaps a text document which [ says which songs that are on the server, in alphabetical order. [ Then it will be much more easier to find a specific song. Here a [ sort of example: [ [ Santiago - "location on server" [ Santiago Live "location on server" [ S....... [ [ You see what I mean. What do you think?

I think that's a great idea, Chris!

There might even be a way to automate this on the server. If each directory had and index of the local songs, then the server could have a nightly script that runs each night to combine all the indexes from each directory and sort them into one long list. I guess the only problem then would be when to consider it "night" since we have an international community where there's probably always someone on the list who is awake. :-)

I keep thinking that it would be best if this server were running Unix or Linux. That would make it easy to automate such things and for people to build tools that can be contributed to the effort of automating the tasks that can be automated. ... but I have no idea how the server is set up.

Brian

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