psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) (07/25/90)
I recently reorganized our user groups bbs and now the file transfer section of RR HOST is not working properly. Files that have actual names that are longer than 12 characters will not download. I have made sure that none of the file paths is longer than 40 characters. I have a folder for each section that contains all the files. The "index" file for the section is stored in the folder on some and out of the folder on others. This makes no difference. I used the program Catalogger to create the index files. I have checked them using file edit and they seem to be ok. Any help would be appreciated Please reply to one of the addresses below. THanks in advance. Richard Crispin Phone: (519)888-4781 Dept. of Psychology Bitnet: psych@watdcs University of Waterloo Internet: psych@watserv1.UWaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ont. Canada N2L 3G1
ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) (07/27/90)
In article <1990Jul25.120911.10250@watserv1.waterloo.edu> psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) writes: >I recently reorganized our user groups bbs and now the file transfer >section of RR HOST is not working properly. Files that have actual >names that are longer than 12 characters will not download. I have >made sure that none of the file paths is longer than 40 characters. >I have a folder for each section that contains all the files. The >"index" file for the section is stored in the folder on some and >out of the folder on others. This makes no difference. I used the >program Catalogger to create the index files. I have checked them >using file edit and they seem to be ok. Any help would be appreciated >Please reply to one of the addresses below. > Richard, what has probably happened is that Catalogger had to truncate some of the names of the files to have them fit into the 12 character description field. In some cases, hopefully not all there is a trailing space after the file name in the name field. The only way to check this is with a FileEditor and click in the filename field and see if you notice the cursor showing a trailing space and delete it. And hopefully that will solve your problem... ----- -- Norm Goodger SysOp - MacInfo BBS @415-795-8862 3Com Corp. Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie. Enterprise Systems Division (I disclaim anything and everything) UUCP: {3comvax,auspex,sun}!bridge2!ngg Internet: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM