montanaro@crdmail_at_iagvax@csbvax.decnet (08/19/85)
From: CSBVAX::MRGATE!MONTANARO@CRDMAIL_at_IAGVAX <mrgate!montanaro@crdmail_at_iagvax@csbvax.decnet> Date: 19-AUG-1985 07:47 From: Skip Montanaro Sender: MONTANARO Subject: Problems with FTP To: mailer!<info-gnu-emacs@mit-prep>@crdmail@csbvax, To: mailer!<ftp-bugs@mit-prep>@crdmail@csbvax, connolly -------- I tried for a good part of the weekend to transfer GNU emacs from mit-prep to ge-crd. I ran into a couple problems. I have been able to get around one, but not the other. Perhaps someone can help me. 1. mit-prep:/u2/emacs/edist.tar is about 4 megabytes. I tried to copy it several times, but was never able to get it cleanly. I admit that it may not have been an artifact of the ftp between the two sites, but problems that arose after I got it to ge-crd and tried getting it to its eventual home. At any rate, I was eventually able to copy it a file at a time from mit-prep:/u2/emacs/dist/*. This is still in progress, but I suspect it will go much better. 2. A more annoying problem is that I can't seem to transfer any files which contain upper case letters (such as /u2/emacs/README, which I was admonished to read). Several files in GNU Emacs have upper case letters in them (most notably a couple of Makefiles and several README's). Our system manager here was able to successfully transfer upper case only files between our VAX (ge-crd) and connected SUNs. Can someone offer a solution? How about a fix (README --> _readme | Makefile --> _makefile) so I can just get the last few important files over? Any help is much appreciated. Skip Montanaro Montanaro@ge-crd -------- ------
larry@JPL-VLSI.ARPA (08/20/85)
From: larry@JPL-VLSI.ARPA Don't know if this helps, because I'm on a VAX running under VMS, but I got around the lower-case/upper-case problems two ways. (1) I used get for the upper-case filenames rather than mget (get README. readme.) and (2) our version of FTP prepends a $ to the first of each series of upper-case letters whihc I later renamed. Larry @ jpl-vlsi