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From: "Woot" <mymp3xyz@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Filename conversions
Message-ID: <3a93d859.0@209.4.12.42>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 16:05:54 GMT
Organization: Intermedia Business Internet - Beltsville, MD
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
I guess it is failing to transfer the file (hence the empty file) then
trying again and renaming the 2nd (successful) transferred file.
Thanks
"Frank da Cruz" <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote in message
news:96v1gh$skm$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu...
> In article <3a92eb55.0@209.4.12.42>, Woot <mymp3xyz@hotmail.com> wrote:
> : I am using K95 to receive files from an HP48. K95 appends ".~1~" to the
> : filename for some reason. Also a blank file with the correct name is
also
> : created. I can't find a way to turn this off. This never happened in the
DOS
> : version of Kermit.
> : Anyone know how to turn it off?
> :
> Read about "set file collision" in the manual, or just type "help set
file".
>
> By default, if a file comes in that has the same name as an existing
> file, the existing file is renamed to have .~n~ at the end, where n is a
> unique (next highest) number.
>
> If you want incoming files to overwrite any existing file of the same
> name, use "set file collision overwrite". There are various other
options.
>
> It sounds to me like you might have "set file collision rename", which
renames
> the incoming file rather than the previously existing file. I can't
explain
> the blank (empty?) file without more information. If you're interested in
> pursuing this, send a packet log to kermit-support@columbia.edu.
>
> - Frank