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From: BILLW%sri-kl@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re:  dysan head alignment program/disk
Message-ID: <16904@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 21:45:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 20 21:45:00 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 13:02:05 EST
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Yes, it depends on the FTP user program.  The TOPS20 ftp server
defaults unspecified parts of the filename to *, so just a
DIR FILENAME will  actually find FILENAME.*.  By the way, the
tops20 filename format is filename.extension.version,
its only a sometime used cpm convention that the extension contain
the program version number. directory, filename, and extension can
all be up to 39 characters long, and version is a number less than
some large decimal number.  The tops20 FTP code also contains a
check so that an wildcard directorys cannot be used (presumably,
this is to prevent people from using large amounts of CPU time
doing a directory of the entire file system).  Perhaps this
restriction should be removed from the SIMTEL system ?

BillW