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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Files rejected by MS-K-3.16B7
Date: 28 Feb 2000 19:39:48 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <89eiu4$5k2$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <89edpn$8nu$1@sloth.swcp.com>, <helios@llama.swcp.com> wrote:
: I regularly use a script to download binary files from a SunOS machine
: over a dialup modem line. Today, for the first time, MSK 3.16 Beta 7
: reports that it is rejecting the files because of date/time. The
: directory listing from the Sun machine looks perfectly normal.
:
What are the files' dates?
: Of course,
: the date was never Feb 28 before. Is this a Y2K problem or something?
:
If there is any such problem, it is more likely to occur tomorrow
(February 29, 2000), when many computers will forget that millenium years
are exceptions to the exception to the leap-year rule.
What does your PC think today's date is?
What does MS-DOS Kermit say in response to the following commands:
Command: Response should be:
echo \v(date) 28 Feb 2000
echo \v(ndate) 20000228
Using MS-DOS Kermit 3.16 here, the responses are as shown. I can log in
to SunOS and download files, regardless of the SunOS file's date. The only
exception is if MS-DOS Kermit's FILE COLLISION setting is UPDATE and I try
to download a Unix file to a DOS directory that already contains a file
with the same name, whose date/time is not earlier than the corresponding
file's date/time on the host; this is how it's supposed to work.
Type SHOW FILE at the MS-DOS Kermit prompt to see its FILE COLLISION setting.
- Frank