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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1997
Craig Henry Becker, Austin, TX (US);
William Mitchell Edwards, Pflugerville, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus of downloading files from a first computer system to a second computer are provided. In a first embodiment, the files are transmitted and stored into a temporary location in the second computer system. After storing the files in the temporary location, the location is opened as a local repository of the transmitted files. In a second embodiment, it is determined whether the transmitted are in one of two formats. If they are in a format that does not require that the files provide a list of all the subfiles that they contain, we determined whether there exists this list. If not the list is created.