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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: set file names
Date: 16 Apr 1995 23:44:36 GMT
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In article <19950416.171305.198951.NETNEWS@uicvm.uic.edu>,
Paul Clifford <pcliff@tigger.cc.uic.edu> wrote:
: If I try to download a file to my local machine (using Linux c-kermit)
: from a remote computer (which uses c-kermit), the filename always ends
: up in uppercase. That is, if I issue the "receive" command from the
: local computer after telling the remote box to "send foobar.txt", the file
: will always appear as "FOOBAR.TXT". Typing "set file names
: literal" on the remote or local, or both, computers doesn't seem to
: change the result.
:
If you just accept the defaults, here's what happens:
The sending C-Kermit uppercases the name, and the receiving C-Kermit
lowercases it again. So without any special commands, you should get
the result you want most of the time.
The only time you need to "set file names literal" is if you do not want
pathnames stripped, or if filenames contain multiple periods that you
want to keep, or if they contain other "strange" characters that Kermit
converts to "X". Note that if "file names" are "converted" (the default,
i.e. not "literal") at the sender, but *are* literal at the receiver,
you will see the behavior you report.
Btw, you can also get some additional control in this area by using the
"set { send, receive } pathnames" command, that was added in version
5A(190), and works (mostly) independently of "set file names". You can
even achieve nice effects like automatic directory creation.
Read about these issues in the manual, "Using C-Kermit", and in the
ckcker.upd file for version 5A(190).
- Frank