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[The Purpose of MFM's FTP Site] [Directory Structure of MFM's FTP Site] [What is 00-index.txt?] [Symbolic Links]

The Purpose of MFM's FTP Site

The purpose of MFM's FTP site, ftp://ftp.mfm.com/, is to download files. Here are several reasons why you would want or need to download files:

To update your software
To replace files that are missing or invalid
To obtain options, features, or bug fixes that are specific to only some of MFM's customers
To obtain documents in various binary formats (e.g.: Windows Help, PDF, word processor formats like Microsoft Word).
To get free or shareware third-party software

Directory Structure of MFM's FTP Site

MFM's FTP site contains several directories. Here are the directories on MFM's FTP site:

  00-index.txt                    Fri Jul 16 01:53:00 1999 Plain Text
  Flyer                           Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 1998 Symbolic link
  PCA-DOS                         Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 1998 Symbolic link
  PCAWin                          Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 1998 Symbolic link
  bin/                            Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 1998 Directory
  cabr/                           Thu Apr 08 10:03:00 1999 Directory
  etc/                            Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 1998 Directory
  hbr/                            Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 1998 Directory
  incoming                        Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 1998 Symbolic link
  pca-dos                         Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 1998 Symbolic link
  pcawin                          Fri Oct 16 00:00:00 1998 Symbolic link
  pub/                            Thu Jun 17 17:48:00 1999 Directory
  shlib/                          Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 1998 Directory

The first column contains the file or directory name. For example; pub and bin are two directories on MFM's FTP site.

The last column contains the type of file, For example; Directory, Plain text, Binary executable, or Symbolic link.

Each directory contains files related to the directory name. Here is a summary of the type of files available in each directory:

Flyer
- Build updates to the PC Access Flyer program. This directory is a symbolic link to: ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub/windows/flyer
PCA-DOS
- This directory is currently empty. This directory is a symbolic link to: ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub/dos/pcaccess
PCAWin
- This directory contains files relating to PC Access for Windows. Many of these files solve specific problems with PC Access for Windows or update your copy of PC Access for Windows to the current Build for your version. This directory is a symbolic link to: ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub/windows/pcaccess
bin
- This directory is currently empty.
cabr
- This directory contains files for use by the Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors.
etc
- This directory is currently empty.
hbr
- This is a private directory.
incoming
- This directory is where members of the public may upload files to MFM. This directory is a symbolic link to: ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub/incoming
pca-dos
- This directory is currently empty. This directory is a symbolic link to: ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub/dos/pcaccess
pcawin
- This directory contains files relating to PC Access for Windows. Many of these files solve specific problems with PC Access for Windows or update your copy of PC Access for Windows to the current Build for your version. This directory is a symbolic link to: ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub/windows/pcaccess
pub
- All of the sub-directories in this directory contain files and updates to PC Access for Windows and PC Access Flyer. Most of the symbolic links in the home directory of MFM's FTP Site point to subdirectories of this directory. The win95 directory contains drivers and utilities for Windows 95.
shlib
- This directory is currently empty.

What is 00-index.txt?

Every directory on MFM's FTP Site contains a 00-index.txt file. The 00-index.txt file contains information on:

The type of files in the directory containing the 00-index.txt file.
The purpose of each file.
How to use each file.

For the latest information about the contents of MFM's FTP Site, see: ftp://ftp.mfm.com/00-index.txt

Symbolic Links

A symbolic link in Unix is a special file that can stand for another file or directory. This enables a single file to appear to exist in more than one directory, or a single directory to appear to be a subdirectory of more than one directory. When a symbolic link stands for a directory, you can use a change-directory command to navigate to the symbolic link's name, and you will navigate to the directory the symbolic link stands for.

MFM uses symbolic links to make navigating MFM's FTP site easier.

For example, the Flyer symbolic link in the ftp://ftp.mfm.com directory makes this directory:

ftp://ftp.mfm.com/Flyer

another name for this directory:

ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub/windows/flyer

If you are looking for a Build update to PC Access Flyer, you can click on the Flyer symbolic link in the ftp://ftp.mfm.com directory to reach the Flyer directory in one step. This is faster than drilling down through the subdirectories:

Click on pub in ftp://ftp.mfm.com
Click on windows in ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub
Click on flyer in ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub/windows

to reach ftp://ftp.mfm.com/pub/windows/flyer.