jbrown@herron.uucp (Jordan Brown) (04/18/89)
Are there any "rules" on the exact format of a D or X filename? I know they have to start with D.sendingsite, but are there any rules on the format of the sequence section? Is there a possibility of conflict if you have a site "alpha" and a site "alpha1", where one generates a sequence section that looks like "1ABC" and the other generates "ABC"? Or is the real answer that in practice this just never happens? I'm interested both in what formats the various implementations generate, and in what interpretation (if any) they put on the names they receive. (I seem to recall some implementation that would generate D files that had the *receiving site* in the file name, which seemed like a recipe for disaster.)