On Sun 28-Jan-07 1:20pm -0600, you wrote: > Bill McCarthy recently wrote to vim-dev and others: >> Runtime files are kept fairly well updated at the Vim FTP >> site. You can update those files from there. Scripts have >> been provided for 'nix and Windows to update local files. > Only script I found on www.vim.org to help with updating runtime > files involves use of AAP. If there are other scripts, please > provide an exact link to them.
They are in posts to this mailing list. >> For Windows, using 4nt, this one-liner will do the update: >> >> copy /[!*~]/u/s ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/dos vrt: >> >> where vrt: is a directory alias for my $VIMRUNTIME. > I am surprised that NT supports /[!*~] as an option to a command! > > Anyone know of a version of this command for XP? I'm using XP. As I mentioned, that copy command is for 4nt - a commercial shell replacement for cmd. The switches I'm using are: /[!*~] Skips all filenames ending with "~" /u Only download new or newer files /s Include subdirectories I don't believe cmd supports ftp or http as source or target of its copy command. I'm not familiar with its switches. > I can use perl's lwp-rget to down-load the runtime files to a > separate directory. I can then over-write the entire $VIMRUNTIME > with the downloaded stuff, but do not know how to merely update > $VIMRUNTIME. If you work from the command line, 4nt is an excellent tool - you'll never have to put up with the limitations of cmd again. You can read about it at: http://www.jpsoft.com/ BTW, it doesn't run on NT - only on 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. -- Best regards, Bill
