No, I didn't think that. You were helping out with more data. I have just had a horrible time because of the attachment problem, and wanted ISO and Meanie also to know how much I appreciate their taking the problem seriously and working on it instead of telling me to install a fourth browser on my Z.

I am wondering, though, what, if anything can be done about attachments that have no extension. Sometimes they are binaries, and sometimes they are text. There are times when I need to send something to someone who may not be able to unzip a file.

What are files without extensions are destined to be considered?

sdjf

Apart from the common image files (jpeg, png etc), all other files should be sent as "application/octet-stream" then the user will have the choice of "save file as ..." or "open with ..." (the latter if the browser allows).

Image files still produce a screen full of characters. Just tried it. crap

I just clicked on an image in a post.... same symptoms. I presume this means that attached files and images in posts work in the same way.. or not!

Are this issue and the non working ZUG downloads issue connected?

Oh well, somebody is working on it because some things have been restored. Thank you to whichever admin(s) have been working on this.

Please keep up the good work.

You do know that in the meantime some, if not all, of the ZUG downloads can be obtained using wget, didn't you? At least it's worked for me on the little testing I did.

sdjf

Thanks for the tip

Feel like posting an example?

My wgetting success has been in using the script for downloading feeds without hurting the bandwith too much. You know, the one that downloads the newer packages only. It appears somewhere in the posts about the cacko feed at stupkid's site. I was able to alter it to do the same for other feeds but I'm a bit unsure about how to get at the ZUG downloads. After all it would be counter productive to download the lot wouldn't it?

It might be handy to post a howto for the new users that keep asking for things that were/are in the downloads so that they could download specific targets. Any volunteers??


Cheers

PS I'm not very clever with wget myself but I'll report back with any successful results.

Here's a no frills basic wget command. The url for the feed index is:
http://www.zaurususergroup.org/feed

That shows you all the packages. You pick the name of what you want, and tack it on to the end of the above url. So, if I want hancompresenter_1.6-lite-1_arm.ipk, I would enter (all one one line):

wget http://www.zaurususergroup.org/feed/hancom...-lite-1_arm.ipk Do not use wildcards...use the full url and package name.. Note the BBS software has screwed up my urls but they must be written out in full without any dots]

And away we go... There are lots of complicated options, like how to put the file in a different location. If I want something to go on my SD card, I would enter:

wget -P /mnt/card/ http://blablabla.ipk

No time to explain all the options but this should get you started. Here's proof it works:
# wget http://www.zaurususergroup.org/feed/hancom...-lite-1_arm.ipk
--11:19:12-- http://www.zaurususergroup.org/feed/hancom...-lite-1_arm.ipk
=> `hancompresenter_1.6-lite-1_arm.ipk'
Connecting to www.zaurususergroup.org:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 118,393 [text/plain]

0K .......... .......... .... [I ran out of room for this post but that's how a download looks to start with] sdjf

Sorry SDJF, I'm feeling disappointed now! I must have misled you.

I was talking about the ZUG Downloads not the feed. The feed is now back up in operation from the link on the ZUG main page, thanks again admin(s). Even when it wasn't, it was possible to do as you explain and wget individual files. I suppose you might be interested in this script for downloading the whole feed and for then keeping it updated by simply downloading the changes? I take no credit for it I grabbed it from one of the Cacko threads and edited it to use on the ZUG feed.

Thanks for your examples, they'll help me make more sense of wget.

What I'd like for Christmas is for the admins to restore the downloads, a collection of all sorts of roms, packages, scripts and generally interesting and useful stuff for the Zs!

Actually my birthday is in August so I'd rather have the downloads back before then for a present!!

cheers

I tried to attach the script. It failed. I'm renaming the file to have a zip extension. That should let me attach it. Don't be fooled it is a .sh file. If you download it just replace the extension zip with the extension sh.

You will of course have to right click on the attachment and rename it to getzugfeed.sh

The broken bits on this site really frustrate me!

So where the heck is (or was) the ZUG downloads? And what's the difference? 8^/

if it isn't too dumb a question

sdjf

If I knew were they were, in the senses of the url, I would be able to wget the ones that I needed.

To answer your question: the simplest way to explain is for me to ask you to google for zaurususergroups aka ZUG and go to the link. You'll then see a page with various bits of info and prominent links. The links include these forums, zaurusthemes, the ZUG feed(which thankfully has been restored) and the ZUG Downloads. If you click on the Downloads link you get a menu which offers you about 200 files. These files range from scripts through various ipks, roms of all sorts (the majority for the 5500) and useful development files. They also include a zipped copy of the Sharp Rom 3.10 and 3.13 files for the desktop. I mean the files for syn and usb drivers.

The problem is that the links don't work

I hope that eventually the links will be restored. Some of this stuff is very hard to find. Some people have recently asked about them and it would be so easy to direct them to the downloads.

Cheers

PS Some of the links are referenced from ELSI, ZSI and other software libraries. The fact that they don't work is a problem there also.

In a rush, so don't have time to paste the lines together. I think I see what you may mean.


In:

http://www.zaurususergroup.org/UpDownload
+index-req-getit-lid-243.phtml

I get:

Fatal error: Call to a member
function Execute() on a non-object in
/home/.nika/offroadgeek/zaurususergro
up.org/includes/pnSession.php on line 368


Clearly they just haven't updated the address or code references in that file since the move?

sdjf

Spot on!

If you have a quick look at the headings you can see that there are some useful and interesting files.

Cheers

I tried the above url
http://www.zaurususergroup.org/UpDownload/
It didn't work, so I went to the main page
http://www.zaurususergroup.org/
and clicked on [ZUG Downloads] and got to the page using this url
http://www.zaurususergroup.org/UpDownload.phtml

You're right, none of the links on that page work.

I was also suspicious of the "phtml" but saw on google that a phtml page "is a Web page that includes a script written in PHP".

I'm thinking, though, that if I really want an ipk, I can always get the exact filename from the index page for the feed, and then wget it from the feed.

Problem is that even if we can wget the ipks, we still don't have the links to the home pages, etc.

sdjf

But sdjf,

they aren't all ipks.

If you notice in the 'menu' for the downloads the ROM section? Under the Sharp Rom it says there are 16! Largely thanks to albertr, there are all the roms for the 5500 from the original 2.? to the 3.? This might be of particular interest to you?

Under tkcrom there are various release candidates of the 5500 rom and a version for the clamshells. Also available the Sharp applications as ipks if you wanted to use them with the tkcrom.

Similar groups of applications for some of the other roms.

Scripts, zipped up copies of the 5500 cd, the jeode java, opera ....

All in a nice convenient location and at the moment unavailable!

Cheers, and to any admin who has the time...Please restore this useful facility.

Ya caught me be lazy about perfecting my post.

I know the ROMs are supposed to be there as well, and that it is an essential resource for the community.

Sigh. I hope more people are helping InSearchOf with this.

sdjf

Sorry for no responses to this issue... but I *ONLY* have access to the forums administrator app... :-(

I havent been able to get in contact with any of the other admins but I will continue trying

Late

ISO Just to say I am very grateful for your efforts

It sounds like you are feeling as frustrated as I am!

Possible tactic? Shift this forum to the top position

I did try a pm to offroadgeek.. no response so far


PS sdjf.. I thought you were aware of that.. Just using your response as an excuse to bump!

Found guylhem's file archives
http://externe.net/zaurus/flash/
http://www.externe.net/zaurus/zedialler/
http://www.externe.net/zaurus/sdk/

Wow, glad this thread was created. I hope someone is able to get this issue
with (at least) image attachments to open correctly. It makes it very painful to
try and catchup with what's been going on with the Z and see folk's screenshots, etc..

I am working on it, but I'm kinda stuck right now. I need the latest version of IPB and I dont have access to the customer portal.

As soon as I get it, the problem should be fixed (hopefully).

as a temp work around in firefox, what I currently do is install the Force Content-Type plugin, and add the following regular expression as a rule:

http:\/\/www\.oesf\.org\/forums\/index\.php\?act=Attach&type=post&id=*

then I assign image/jpeg as the new mime type so I can just click on attached images to view them.
in order to be able to download attachments, I set the mime type to application/zip, but the attachment is always saved as index.php so you need to rename the file afterwards.

now if i get really desperate, i could hack the Force Content Type plugin and make it read the real content type of the returned attachment and set it automatically, but I am hoping the forum gets fixed soon so i dont need to do this....

Any progress on fixing the attachments? Renaming index.php to some incredibly long name is getting very old!

PS Anything happening with the downloads?