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- From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Undocumented MAIL qualifier
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.113412.23448@slcs.slb.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 11:34:12 GMT
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- In article <0095F9DF.1230D0A0.3927@okra.millsaps.edu>,
- hornlo@OKRA.MILLSAPS.EDU (Larry Horn) writes:
- >>>feature and it works fine. The only pet peeve I have about it is that all
- >>>binary information is sent about a file except for its name. If you want to
- >
- >I would like an additional header field that showed the original filename,
- >but *please* don't ask for automatic naming during extraction <grin>!
- >[ LOGIN.COM, MAIL.MAI, SYSTARTUP_V5.COM, SYSUAF, ... what a field day! ]
-
- Well, this is something that you get with the BACKUP command (and of course
- you can always override the name it supplies). Supposing BACKUP created
- savesets consisting of files without names associated with them. Restoring a
- saveset would be a nightmare. This is what exists with the foreign message
- feature. And you say you like it that way?
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