Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!portal!cup.portal.com!thad
From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FTP Filenames.
Message-ID: <35148@cup.portal.com>
Date: 22 Oct 90 11:32:44 GMT
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2flntopaz@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu in <26262.2722256c@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> writes:

	"Well, one thing I've noticed with FTP sites is that filenames are CASE
	sensitive.  [...] "

The case sensitivity is characteristic of UNIX (and Ultrix and other) systems;
VMS and DEC-20 FTP sites retain file names in upper-case but allow lower-case
for referencing the files.

Re: the example posted re: long file names, you might try (assuming your ftp
program isn't brain-dead):

	ftp> get  long_archive_name.LZH  shortname

that is, the incoming long name will be received as the specified shortname.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]