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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: name & end-of-line for a script file
Date: 8 May 2000 14:24:30 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <8f6imu$f8m$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <8f4tcl$e7e$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Peter Easthope <peter_easthope@gulfnet.pinc.com> wrote:
: Although my KTFC scripts have been developed
: with MS-DOS Kermit they should eventually work
: with Kermit 95 and C-Kermit, subject to
: translation of the end-of-line notation from
: <cr><lf> to <lf>.
:
Of course if you transfer the script files with
Kermit or FTP in text mode, the CRLF/LF
conversion happens automatically.
: I would like recommendations on script file name
: conventions and whether separate script sets are
: necessary for C-Kermit, K 95 and MS-DOS Kermit.
:
Of course there are differences, but in general the
language of K95 and C-Kermit is a superset of that
of MS-DOS Kermit. Beyond that, there are a few
minor syntax incompatibilities and behavioral
differences. A preliminary guide can be found here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/scriptref.html
: Separate DOS and Unix script sets can be
: maintained with upper case names for DOS and lc
: for Unix but maintenance of multiple concurrent
: variations is time consuming as you know too
: well.
:
: The 8.3 limitation of DOS file names is easy to
: live with but all upper case is ugly and
: bothersome to type in Unix. Commonly in Unix,
: file names are all lower case and DOS tolerates
: that. There is also the nice Pascal convention
: of capitalizing the first letter of each word.
:
: If a single script set is acceptable, what is
: the recommended pattern for file names?
:
For maximum portability, use names without paths
containing no more than one period, with no more
than 8 characters before the period and three
after, containing only lowercase letters and
digits.
- Frank