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- From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: FTP mput VMS->Unix changes file name cases
- Message-ID: <921215174106.24000550@TGV.COM>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:42:27 PST
- Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
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- > When I use FTP (Multinet V3.1 Rev. D, VMS 5.5-2) on my VAX and do an
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- > mput *
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- > on a directory full of files like:
-
- > SAF_00000001.;1 SAF_00000002.;1 SAF_0000000E.;1
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- > and send them to our Sparc, they end up with names like:
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- > saf_00000001 saf_00000002 saf_0000000e
-
- > Why does the case change and is there some way to override?
-
- The case is changed because VMS files are necessarily uppercase
- and most people use lower case filenames under UNIX. It is most
- natural for "FOO.C;1" to become "foo.c", and in some cases where
- the part after the "." signifies a certain type of file (eg, ".c") it
- is important to perform this transformation.
-
- Ken
-