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From: adam@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Adam H. Lewenberg)
Subject: Re: Trouble with AS-NAME switch in SEND
Date: 18 May 1999 11:58:29 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Message-ID: <7hrkl5$clu$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
To: kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
I realize what is happening, but why? Aren't the various versions of
C-Kermit smart enough to realize if the file system they are running
on differentiates between upper- and lower-case? Otherwise, what is
the point of the set file names literal command? A. Lewenberg
jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman) writes:
>In article <7hqhmo$g9f$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
>Adam H. Lewenberg <adam@symcom.math.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>: [E:\] remote set file names literal
>: [E:\] set file names literal
>: [E:\] send /AS-NAME:README readme
>:
>: (Kermit now gives me the send screen where I see README => README => readme)
>:
>: Why is it converting the filename to lower case?
>Because of the many older file systems which only supported Upper case
>file names Unix C-Kermit converts an all upper case file name to lower
>case even when file names are literal.
>What you are seeing above is the K95 is translating from "README" to "README"
>and then C-Kermit is translating the file name to "readme".
> Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
> The Kermit Project * Columbia University
> 612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
> http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org
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