DPAD Question

[aphex]

So i was fortunate enough to get another 12-15 computers crunching DPAD this afternoon; however, none of them have any form of internet access.

I went in and changed the AutoSend feature of the config to No.

My question is, how do i go about collecting all the results and sending them? What method do you reccomend?

 

[JonB]

Floppy disk would work, but since each machine's file is named "results.txt" you must be careful not to overwrite. A USB memory drive would be faster. How long would you wait between flushes? Too long and the results file might be bigger than a single floppy could hold.

Once back at a connected PC, just flush it, then I'd terminate DPAD. Copy each results file into the DPAD folder and do a manual send. Repeat until done. Then restart the client.

I recommend shutting it down because if the client finishes a work unit during a manual send, it ends up not sending the correct file. (it sends the new tiny file, not the big renamed file.)

 

[aphex]

Well i used my USB Key to get all the files on the computers in the first place so thats not a prob.

But i can just take those results.txt and one by one send them off from a wired rig?

 

[Unforgiven]

yes you can. i sneakernet 3 computers at work and all i do is cut and paste the results.txt file onto a floppy, take it to my box with internet access and upload from there. i suggest the same for you.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Or if sending one after another takes to much time u can always just merge the files with simple wordpad 🙂

 

[JonB]

Or, if you want to use a little DOS command line trickery, use the Copy command.

On your USB drive, copy each "results.txt" file to the USB but change the name to "PC1.txt" and "PC2.txt" etc...

Once done, use the copy command like this:

copy pc1.txt + pc2.txt + pc3.txt + pc4.txt + pc5.txt results.txt

note there is no plus sign at the end, meaning the copy command will combine all the files into a final, correctly named results.txt file. Write a batch file to do it the first time and it becomes easy the next time.

 

[Unforgiven]

holy crap jon thats a fantastic trick! i know a lot of dos commands but ive never heard of that! im gonna try that today, thanx mang!

 

[aphex]

Awesome thanks guys... Most of the files should be up around 10-12mb each... Is there a limit to how large each dump can be?