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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: SET FILE NAMES
Date: 4 Mar 1997 21:47:38 GMT
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In article <331C5AB1.6828@why.net>, Rick Gorton <gortonr@why.net> wrote:
: I have been working with a script to transmit compressed files from one
: Unix machine to another Unix machine. I am not having any problems
: transmitting the compressed files (when I set file type binary on both
: machines).
:
You really should need to do this only on the sending machine, but it
doesn't hurt to do it in both places.
: The problem is that when the file transmits, it ends up on
: the other end with a .z extension (rather than a .Z extension). I have
: tried to SET FILE NAMES LITERAL, with no success.
:
SET FILE NAMES LITERAL must be given on both machines, since there is
presently no protocol by which one Kermit program tells the other whether
a filename is to be interpreted literally.
- Frank