re: temporary online storage

re: temporary online storage

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Thanks for the suggestions... but I do not have a shell account, and the
barrier on browsers is an automatic one - somehow the other end of the
wire knows I am not using a mainstream graphical browser, and disallows
access. I assume it is because those sites make their living by bombarding
their users with advertising along the edges of the screen or some
such. We may have to break the stuff up into email attachments. I think
probably the "dd" command with its "skip=" and "count=" options might be
the tool to use for that. What a pain!

Chuck.


My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
"One planet is all you get."

re: temporary online storage

[Kirk Wood]

See my private email.

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Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net
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		Alfred North Whitehead

re: temporary online storage

[Brent Harding]

Or, if one could get away with it, use a free webpage provider that gives
50 mb of space, webjump gives 25, they usually don't like you using it for
file storage, but all they'll do is kill the account, probably not until
after you're done with it anyways. I wish there was such a nongraphical
based site to apply, as they give ftp sometimes, up to 25 megs.

Re: temporary online storage

[Brent Harding]

I would try ibackup.com, but you probably still have to sign up with these
browsers. I think what happens when you share, however, is the files are
for any user of the service to download, but not sure of it.
I've never found it either, but have been wanting something good, although
I don't know if there's control enough that one can upload to another
person's directory, or if it's an all or nothing share, read and write.

temporary online storage

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi gang -

This is off topic, but let me try anyway! :-)

Does anyone know of a way I can share online space with another person so
that we can transfer files by FTP? I would like it to be password
protected (not public) and may need in the neighborhood of 50MB - worst
case. I was referred to two possibilities, www.idrive.com and
www.xdrive.com, but both of those sites require me to be using either
Internet Explorer or Netscape in a graphical environment, which I am not
willing to do. Checking with my ISP (a really smalltown operation) there
is no way I can extend access to my own storage space there without giving
the other person total access to my account - email and everything - and
then there is the possibility of simultaneous accessing. What I hope is
that there might be a service similar to the two I have mentioned, but one
which does not impose restrictions on the type of access packages that are
allowed.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated. And now we return you to the
previously scheduled program already in progress!

Chuck.


My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
"One planet is all you get."

Re: temporary online storage

[Janina Sajka]

If you have a shell account somewhere you can probably create a publically
accessible sub-dir via anonymous ftp. This is often the case on shell
systems--admittedly rarer and rarer.

Also, if everyone is on the same server, using /tmp is often available as
well, though this won't meet the password requirment.

 On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Charles
Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi gang -
> 
> This is off topic, but let me try anyway! :-)
> 
> Does anyone know of a way I can share online space with another person so
> that we can transfer files by FTP? I would like it to be password
> protected (not public) and may need in the neighborhood of 50MB - worst
> case. I was referred to two possibilities, www.idrive.com and
> www.xdrive.com, but both of those sites require me to be using either
> Internet Explorer or Netscape in a graphical environment, which I am not
> willing to do. Checking with my ISP (a really smalltown operation) there
> is no way I can extend access to my own storage space there without giving
> the other person total access to my account - email and everything - and
> then there is the possibility of simultaneous accessing. What I hope is
> that there might be a service similar to the two I have mentioned, but one
> which does not impose restrictions on the type of access packages that are
> allowed.
> 
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated. And now we return you to the
> previously scheduled program already in progress!
> 
> Chuck.
> 
> 
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
> "One planet is all you get."
> 
> 
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> 

-- 

				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina@afb.net

Re: temporary online storage

[Brent Harding]

Nobody from outside the system that has no login will be able to get to
/tmp. The trouble with a lot of these shell providers is finding anonymous
ftp space and with a quota of 5 mb, how do you split the upload/download in
5 meg chunks to delete from the server, and piece the files back together,
upload one, other person downloads it, delete from server, upload again,
and so on, but how that's done and files pieced back together is something
I don't think linux does.

Re: temporary online storage

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Hi Chuck,

     Just send me the preferred user-ids and full names and callsigns if 
any of the users and I'll create accounts on speakup.octothorp.org.  It
is connected to a DSL with 640k down and 272k up.  Reverse that because
you're at the other end.  There is a 16MB HDD with no quotas.

          Calling the number at the top of this message will probably
get a faster response



          HTH.
          Bill in Denver
On Wed, 9 Aug
2000, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi gang -
> 
> This is off topic, but let me try anyway! :-)
> 
> Does anyone know of a way I can share online space with another person so
> that we can transfer files by FTP? I would like it to be password
> protected (not public) and may need in the neighborhood of 50MB - worst
> case. I was referred to two possibilities, www.idrive.com and
> www.xdrive.com, but both of those sites require me to be using either
> Internet Explorer or Netscape in a graphical environment, which I am not
> willing to do. Checking with my ISP (a really smalltown operation) there
> is no way I can extend access to my own storage space there without giving
> the other person total access to my account - email and everything - and
> then there is the possibility of simultaneous accessing. What I hope is
> that there might be a service similar to the two I have mentioned, but one
> which does not impose restrictions on the type of access packages that are
> allowed.
> 
> Any suggestions greatly appreciated. And now we return you to the
> previously scheduled program already in progress!
> 
> Chuck.
> 
> 
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
> "One planet is all you get."
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: temporary online storage

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Bill -

Many thanks. I have had several offers from other list members, and have
accepted one of them. This is a very generous group of folks, and I
appreciate your offer and the others that have contacted me offlist.

Regards - Chuck.


My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
"One planet is all you get."