Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!scasterg From: scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Zterm 0.85 problem with file names Message-ID: <1991Jun28.032908.18250@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Date: 28 Jun 91 03:29:08 GMT References: Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu In article nolan@helios.unl.edu writes: >Pardon me if this has been reported previously, but I hadn't seen it yet. > >When I send a file with Zmodem using ZTERM 0.85 to RZ on a unix box (I've >tried it on two different unix systems), the file 'a.b.c' gets renamed 'ab.c'. >It looks like its trying to come up with a DOS-style filename, because if >there are more than three characters after the period (abc.defg), it gets >truncated to only three characters after the period. > >Michael Nolan >nolan@helios.unl.edu the author of ZTerm sent me a pretty simple patch for that. It can be done using any hex file editor. Once it is done, file names are kept intact -- it no longer tries to convert to a dos-style name. However, I won't post the patch. If you paid your shareware fees, the author will be happy to send you the patch. If you haven't, maybe now's the time. -- scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Stuart M Castergine "Step by step they were led to practices which disposed to vice -- the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but part of their servitude."