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slightly off MQ2 topic -predownloading EQ patches
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:38 pm
by shuttle
I run eq on 4 computers right now. During these days of OoW patching I patch with one computer and copy the files to the other computers. that way I really only patch once.
What I am looking to do is to have a way to more automate this process. Like a Mini (eq) patcher program that will check for new files and download new content to a virgin directory and then have a list of machines it can copy those files to (manual or automatic). that way I could just leave the program running while I am at work and then all of my EQ directories could be updated when I get home.
any idea's or pointers?
shuttle
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 2:06 pm
by fearless
I've thought about this before, running some sort of CVS on my linux box and sync to the other machines / directories. Unfortuneately that is as far as it has gotten.
Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:21 pm
by TheAFKBard
rsynch may be your answer. I believe it's cross-platform, multi-protocol, etc.
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:12 am
by ScubaSki
Or everyones favorite windows file replication tool "Robocopy!"
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:58 pm
by mercdev
Xcopy.
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:53 pm
by shuttle
ok...
I know all of those parts. the part I wanted was how to patch with out starting Sony's patcher... something I can run continually and get the latest bits
shuttle
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:11 pm
by dont_know_at_all
shuttle, you don't know all of those parts.
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:04 pm
by shuttle
Copying files between machines, that I do.
I want a better method than to make some batchfile that starts and kills everquest.exe every 15 minutes (messy).
shuttle
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:26 pm
by code4food
open everquest.exe with a hexeditor, find the xml file its requesting over http, whip up a perl script, and voila... not that hard...
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:52 am
by z76
Just doing "dir/ah" from a command-prompt in your EverQuest directory yields one hidden file, "patchcache2.xml". This file contains name, timestamp, size and CRC for all of your EverQuest files.
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:00 pm
by Bombadil
shuttle wrote:ok...
I know all of those parts. the part I wanted was how to patch with out starting Sony's patcher... something I can run continually and get the latest bits
shuttle
No, you dont know all those parts. If you had bothered to look at rsync you would find it does exactly what you want it to do. Now go and read up on it cause I'm not gonna just tell you how it works.
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:03 am
by Marze
Use XCOPY!
Put this in a batch file:
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xcopy /e /y /f /D /EXCLUDE:exclude.txt c:\"Program Files"\Everquest\*.* c:\"Program Files"\Everquest2
Put this in the same directory as the batch file and call it exclude.txt
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eqclient.ini
UIErrors.txt
eqhardware.ini
\screenshots\
\userdata\
\logs\
EQ_Missing_Files.log
EverQuest.log
eqdevice.txt
eqoptions
UI_
\maps\
eqlsPlayerData.ini
eqfecfg.cfg
texture.txt
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:32 am
by Cr4zyb4rd
Shhh! He knows all those parts.
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:31 pm
by eqjoe
What part? What part are you talking about?
Oh.. wait.. I see the part. Its that part in TheAFKbards avatar.
-j