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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Q: How to back up a DOS box to UNIX via Kermit?
Date: 3 Aug 1998 13:53:24 GMT
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In article <slrn6s93ug.p2b.charlie@pc.antipope.org>,
Charlie Stross <charlie @ nospam . antipope . org> wrote:
: 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.)
:
I would say it's a globbing problem. It should work consistently no matter
where it's rooted. We'll have to look into this for the next Beta edit.
Thanks for noticing.
: (BTW, can I add that this is about the best support I've ever seen for
: a piece of free/semi-free software? Thanks!)
:
Thanks for saying so!
- Frank