Re: sitecopy to local storage devices

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 05:48:28AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Joe> There *is* backend distinction, the backends are completely abstract.
> Joe> It sounds like more work on the rshdriver would be needed for your WinCE
> Joe> thing, but it wouldn't be much more work, I think.
> 
> If only we were able to specify in sitecopyrc:
> #The shell command to copy a file:
> pcp %SOURCE :%DESTINATION
> #The shell command to delete a file:
> prm :%FILE
> #The shell command to create a directory:
> pmkdir :%DIRECTORY
> #The shell command to remove a directory:
> prmdir :%DIRECTORY
> a whole world of possibilities would then open up, no?
>
> As I intend to transfer at 19200 baud, elegance can take a back seat.
> 
> Or perhaps I could make four phony commands earlier on $PATH, called
> cp, rm, mkdir and rmdir, that do what I want underneath...

Or just write a wrapper for the p* tools and configured them explicitly
with "rsh" and "rcp" in the config file.  That should be easy enough.

joe
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