Hmm..What am I doing wrong-spells_en.txt

[Zaphod]

Or you can do what I did, which was to install the cygwin tools (including OpenSSH) under Windows and used the scp program.

$ scp spells_en.txt youruser@yourhost:/yourdirectory

Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)

[Cryonic]

or download SSH from ftp.ssh.com. It comes with all the secure shell stuff (scp, sftp, ssh, etc...).

[suseuser7341]

How about smbclient ?

Share your EQ Directory on the windows box and you can use

smbclient //EQboxname/sharename

to access the files, just like ftp. If you require a username it can be supplied via '-U username' option at the smbclient command. As always 'man smbclient' for further options

[LordCrush]

Samba

to get out the big Gun

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

Here is what I did since I couldn't ftp to my linux box (have not figured out why, but anyway...)

On the EQ box, I zipped up the spells_en.txt with WinZip 8 and E-mailed it to myself.

Then on the SEQ box, loaded the mail client to receive the E-mail and saved the attachment into my home directory.

Then from my home directory, I did the following:

unzip spells_en.zip
dos2unix < spells_en.txt > /usr/local/share/showeq/spells_en.txt

Worked great.

[jesterbam]

WOW! Tried

How about smbclient ?

Share your EQ Directory on the windows box and you can use

smbclient //EQboxname/sharename

This was by far the easiest!

1. open terminal window
2 Typed : smbclient //mywindowscomputername/everquest
3. asked for my Windows password
4. Type : dir and it listed my everquest directory.
5. I tryed "copy" and it did not work
6. Typed get spells_en.txt
7. The file was transfer to my Linux box.
Sweet!

[jesterbam]

Found another way that is graphical (means it shows up in Konqueror for easy point and click copy)

1.open terminal window and cd to /mnt directory

2. type: mkdir /win <-----this can be any name. It will be the name of the directory you look for to see the files on the Windows box using Konqueror

3. type: smbmount //windows_computer_name/shared_windows _directory /mnt/win <-----this should match the file name you used in step 2

4. enter your windows password when asked.

5. done

Open Konqueror and go to /mnt/win and you will now see your windows directory/files. you can now do a simple point and click copy.

[suseuser7341]

Isn't konqueror able to mount CIFS shares dynamicly itself ?

so entering an url like: smb://host/ lists all shares for me, if you prefer the clicky-bunty way

[jesterbam]

suseuser7341, I just got around to tryig what you suggested and sure enough . it beats them all for simplisty.

For the other newbs like me:

1. Open Konqueror

2. In the window slot beside "Location" type smb://windows_computer_name ENTER

3. BINGO all shared files and folders appear for easy point and click copy and paste.


Thank you everyone for sharing your information

[Freakyuno]

So if this is the text I am getting when ShowEQ starts, does that mean it worked or didnt?
The amount of spells it loads, and the maxspell number of mine dont match what was in a previous post in this thread.

Loaded 4294 spells from 
'/usr/local/share/showeq/spells_en.txt' 
maxSpell=0x1142

I did the same as a previous poster, emailed the file to myself, via hotmail, and downloaded it on the SEQ machine.


*edit: it cut off my code, moving it to three lines.

[jesterbam]

Freckyuno,

looks like you are missing a lot of spells. I suggest you do one of the simple steps above and transfer the file instead of e-mail then try it . if that does not work try the dos2unix to make sure it is proprerly formatted. When I load the spells I get like 33283 spells loaded.

[Zaphod]

Actually jesterbam, 4294 spells is actually the correct count for the current version of EQ with a max spell id of 0x1142 (which for the hexadecimal impaired is 4418).

Also, as I mentioned in the CHANGES (and the announcement) for 4.3.14 the loading of those text files is now line termination tolerant.

Enjoy,
Zaphod (dohpaZ)

[jesterbam]

Thanks Zaphod. I copied over a new version of the spells_en.txt and sure enough I get the numbers you said. Thanks for everything, your work is amazing.

[talgor]

I did the emial thing. I zipped my spells_en file and emailed to myself. put the file in my usr/local/share/showeq folder. and then tried a few commands that people posted. and it always said

Problem converting spells to Dos..

either way i try it it tells me there are problems converting the spells_en.txt file

I tried: dos2unix < spells_en.txt > /usr/local/share/showeq/spells_en.txt and
unix2dos < spells_en.txt > /usr/local/share/showeq/spells_en.txt

when I opened the file in my showeq file I didnt see any headers or anything I needed to delete.. it all looked fine. anyone have an idea to what I am doing wrong?

[Cryonic]

Originally posted by talgor
I tried: dos2unix < spells_en.txt > /usr/local/share/showeq/spells_en.txt and
unix2dos < spells_en.txt > /usr/local/share/showeq/spells_en.txt

Two things:

1) as was posted in the announcements forum you no longer need to convert it.

2) If you still are going to convert it, do it right. (man dos2unix).

NAME
       dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter

SYNOPSYS
       dos2unix  [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile
       outfile ...]

       Options:

       [-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that con_
       verts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.