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From: jbrown@herron.uucp (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: [DX].* file names
Message-ID: <32@herron.uucp>
Date: 17 Apr 89 19:03:33 GMT
Reply-To: jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov
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Are there any "rules" on the exact format of a D or X filename?  I know
they have to start with D.sendingsite, but are there any rules on the format
of the sequence section?  Is there a possibility of conflict if you have
a site "alpha" and a site "alpha1", where one generates a sequence section
that looks like "1ABC" and the other generates "ABC"?

Or is the real answer that in practice this just never happens?

I'm interested both in what formats the various implementations generate, and
in what interpretation (if any) they put on the names they receive.

(I seem to recall some implementation that would generate D files that had
the *receiving site* in the file name, which seemed like a recipe for
disaster.)