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From: charlie@pc.antipope.org (Charlie Stross)
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Subject: Re: Q: How to back up a DOS box to UNIX via Kermit?
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 17:12:00 +0100
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On 1 Aug 1998 19:40:02 GMT, Frank da Cruz
<fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>It turns out that MS-DOS Kermit (unlike C-Kermit or K95) has to be told to
>include the pathname on outbound files when it is sending recursively;
>otherwise, it leaves off the pathname, which explains why all the files are
>ending up in the same directory on Linux.
>
>So before starting the transfer, tell MS-DOS Kermit:
>
> set send pathnames relative
> cd <root-of-tree-to-be-backed-up>
> connect
Thanks. Subdirectories now being created and populated correctly.
Oddly, though, doing get /recursive * quits after fetching the first
directory tree (we're talking about a DOS system here, with several
directory trees in its root). I can live with this -- it's pulling
things over and putting them in the right place, even if I have to
tell it each top-level directory to pull in -- but I can't help
wondering why. Is it some kind of globbing problem? (Time to RTFM, I
think.)
(BTW, can I add that this is about the best support I've ever seen for
a piece of free/semi-free software? Thanks!)
-- Charlie