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DCC filename control... #14419 07/03/03 05:15 AM
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 32 P Pap OP Ameglian cow
OP Pap Ameglian cow P Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 32	Add a way to specify a file's local name to DCC to someone, and be able to specify the SENDING filename ie his receiving filename. So I have mytext.txt on my computer and I do... /dcc send mytext.txt MyFriend yourtext.txt ...well...you get the picture

Re: DCC filename control... #14420 08/03/03 03:10 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,127 BratLand P ParaBrat Hoopy frood
ParaBrat Hoopy frood P Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,127 BratLand	ok, i read that a few times and im still not sure what you are asking. You can do /dcc send nick filename. Are you saying you want to send a file by the name you have it as, but by the time he gets it, its a diff file name? ParaBrat @#mIRCAide DALnet

Re: DCC filename control... #14421 11/03/03 09:26 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,063 D Doqnach Hoopy frood
Doqnach Hoopy frood D Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,063	you could use a copy+rename before you dcc... when triggered from a script... else it would take 3 commands to type ;-] If it ain't broken, don't fix it!

Re: DCC filename control... #14422 14/03/03 10:10 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 154 B BoredNL Vogon poet
BoredNL Vogon poet B Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 154	"/dcc send mytext.txt MyFriend yourtext.txt" He means make it so the person recieving the file sees it as "yourtext.txt", instead of "mytext.txt". It could be useful in some situations I think. - Wherever you go there you are.[color:lightgreen]

Re: DCC filename control... #14423 14/03/03 12:57 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 395 Ireland M MonoSex Fjord artisan
MonoSex Fjord artisan M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 395 Ireland	Sure, so i could send you a trojan.vbs as naked_britney.jpg

Re: DCC filename control... #14424 14/03/03 01:02 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK C Collective Hoopy frood
Collective Hoopy frood C Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,138 London, UK	If you did that it would try to open it in Paint (or the system default) which doesn't recognise and run .vbs scripts, so the virus would never execute...

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