Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!sanders
From: sanders@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry P Sanderson)
Subject: Re: How Do You FTP Files Of Form *.tar.Z To A PC?
Message-ID: <1991May12.144234.6262@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <42236@cup.portal.com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 1991 14:42:34 GMT

In article <42236@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes:
>I'm probably missing something obvious, but today while doing
>an FTP from a UNIX machine to a PC I was unable to transfer
>files that had been both TARred and COMPRESSed.  These files
>were of the form <name>.tar.Z.  Upon issuing the GET command
>from the PC I got a message "Unable to open file".  This was
>using Wollongong's  WIN/TCP For DOS.  Is the inability to deal
>with a three-part name a failure of the WIN/TCP product, or
>is there a trick I can use here to get the file over to my PC?

Will,

Try the command:

   get <name>.tar.Z <newname>.Z

DOS really doesn't like filenames with multiple extensions (obviously),
so the above command renames the file on the way over.
We have this problem FTP'ing from a VM host to our PC's, where the
default name is <filename> <filetype>, where each can be 8 chars long.

Terry Sanderson
Supervisor, Microcomputer Specialists
University of Toronto Computing Services
sanders@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca