One of the chores of building and maintaining a web page is keeping track of how much data has been uploaded and stored on your service provider's disk. The limit set by my ISP is 2 megabytes. Occasionally I would scan the directory listing in my assigned space and come up with an estimate of how much room I had left. Once I even added it by hand. Recently I wrote a little program that would do the adding for me. It should work on any directory listing that has a column of byte counts for the files in the listing.
If your service provider does not provide you with information concerning the amount of disk space you are consuming and you would like to try this program, I will be happy to email you a zipped up copy. It is a DOS-based program of a little over 100K bytes and should transfer fairly fast as an attachment. Just click on the mailto link below which will send me your email address and I will ship you a copy.
I am including here a short excerpt from the readme file for you to evaluate to see if this is a program you think you can use.
Here is the excerpt from the readme file:
"Here are the steps necessary to use the program. Some of these steps
are optional or may be modified to suit your situation.
1) Place the program in a directory on your hard disk.
2) Obtain a directory listing of the files you have stored on your
ISP's user's reserved disk space. See below for an example.
3) Jot down the following prior to running the program:
a) The name of the file including the extension
b) The starting position (column number) in the file of
the byte count column
c) The width of the byte count column. Be sure to
include the starting and ending positions in this
count. Blank spaces preceding any byte count will be
stripped off by the program.
4) Run the program and enter the 3 parameters (3a,3b, and 3c above)
asked for by the program. The program may be run from the DOS
prompt or from Windows. (I have a shortcut set up on my Win95
desktop)
5) Note the byte count total produced by the program and repeat
steps 2 thru 4 above for any sub-directories if any.
PRESETTING THE PROGRAM PARAMETERS
An alternative to supplying the parameters each time is to use a
batch file or run string to be processed by the program. You supply
the parameters as follows:
TOTALER filename,starting_position,length
Example:
TOTALER C:\ZDIR\TEMP\HOMEPAGE.LST,29,13
Be sure to supply the complete path to the file, unless it is in
the current directory, and separate the parameters with commas. In
my system, I set up the run string in the properties of the desktop
shortcut. Each time I retrieve a new listing from the server, I
rename the file to the name contained in the runstring in the
shortcut."
To let me know if you want a copy of the program, envoke the link below.