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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie)
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Subject: Re: funny problem with SERVER
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Date: 3 Jul 97 13:44:30 MDT
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In article <Ir4L3mZAV9dt@cc.usu.edu>, jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik) writes:
> I think matters are not quite what they seem. DOS uses filename
> format of "8.3" with restrictions on characters. VMS does not follow these
> rules. Thus MS-DOS Kermit converts incoming filenames to DOS format. Extra
> dots in the name, for example, trigger such conversion. Please look very
> carefully at the VMS filenames. I'll bet they look like a.file1.txt and
> a.file2.txt and so on.
> Joe D.
VMS doesn't allow extra dots in a filename; that's why when you FTP
something onto the cluster from Unix, you often wind up with a file name
that looks something like BOOGER.DAT$5NZ (this is how Multinet deals
with the filename booger.dat.Z).
This is particularly annoying from Linux; for some reason the FTP client
I'm using on Linux insists on prepending "./" to all filenames it finds
for an mput. I wind up with a directory full of files named
.$5N*...
Also, MS-DOS has few, if any, restrictions on characters that can be used
in a filename. MS-DOS Kermit is certainly much more conservative than
MS-DOS itself.
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