Making an AXT from an entire directory
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By Mark Poole
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Posted: 22 Sep 1999 |
Mark Poole, our favorite expert on ZENworks in a school setting, sent us this splendid little beauty. It's a Perl script that will produce an .axt from an entire directory structure. Bet you can think of ways to use that, hmmm?
I had an application that was totally contained in a directory structure (no registry entries, no files in windows/sys, etc.) I didn't feel like doing a snAppShot just to copy some files, but adding them manually inside of NWAdmin is even less fun. So, I wrote this Perl script to do it for me. When run it will ask for three directories
- The directory where the files are now
- The location you are going to distribute them from
- The location you want them distributed to
It will then copy all of the files to the Source_path (which must exist), and create an .axt file you can use to make a NAL object to copy them to your machines. It follows all NAL conventions (renames the files to #.fil, and creates a filedef.txt, creates macros, etc.)
To run it you need Perl, which is available for Win32 platforms at www.ActiveState.com
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