W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen) (07/29/85)
Many have complained that when getting (especially "mget"ing) files to a Unix system from the SIMTEL20 FTP server, the resulting filenames are not what would be desired. This problem is partially fixed by the installation of a new FTP server that allows users to CWD (CD) to a given directory for read access, so that the fully qualified file name need not be sent back for each file gotten with an "mget". However, even if you CWD to the directory before issuing an mget command, the files will still show up with uppercase names and will include "generation" (version) numbers. And of course, if you fail to CWD first, you still get the directory name too, so that you are likely to find files with names like <UNIX.UTIL1>CRCK2.C.1 in your Unix directory, rather than the crck2.c you might have wanted. A new program, XXU.C (20-to-Unix filename converter), is available in PS:<UNIX.UTIL1> which will fix the names of all files sent to a Unix system from a DEC-20 FTP server. It should work on VMS and DEC-20 filenames alike -- it strips DECnet node names, device names, directory names, generation numbers, and it lowercases the uppercase letters. When renaming to the name thus formed, it takes care not to write over any existing files. See comments in the source for further details. --Keith
W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARPA (Keith Petersen) (07/29/85)
I just tried to grab xxu.c from simtel20, and it claims that
PS:<UNIX.UTIL1> doesn't exist. <UNIX.UTIL> also doesn't exist,
and while <UNIX> does, xxu.c isn't in it.
My appologies to all. I left out once character in the directory
name. It should be:
Filename Type Bytes CRC
Directory PS:<UNIX.UTILS1>
XXU.C.2 ASCII 3970 D609H
--Keith