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From: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ZTerm filenames
Message-ID: <2757@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 18 Jan 90 07:54:59 GMT
References: <3863@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman)
Organization: Royal Institute Of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <3863@mace.cc.purdue.edu> ar4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes) writes:
>Is is possible to avoid the changes that Zterm makes to filenames before
>it uploads a file via Zmodem?
>
>I would, at least, like it to keep the entire name with the exception of
>spaces in the name. Anyone think that the ability to change name handling
>might change in an upcoming version??

  Strangely enough, this is viewed (and refered to in the docs) as an
  improvement from the previous version.  It certainly wasn't there
  in 0.8 of ZTerm.  The reasons for it are, as far as I recall, better
  compatibility with the Neanderthal Operating System's way of restricting
  file names to an 8-character string delimited by an optional dot, followed
  by an optional 3-character identyfying extension.  I don't think it
  possible to hack it back... prior to starting an upload, ZTerm calls
  a routine that explicitly truncates any Mac file name that's non 
  conforming to the above convention.  Dave Alverson might change it back,
  though, if we complain loud enuf

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