Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!eris!chapman From: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Kermit Problem with VT100 Message-ID: <2072@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 18:53:49 EST Article-I.D.: jade.2072 Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:53:49 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 19:04:25 EST References: <1986Dec30.131352.22951@utcs.uucp> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman) Organization: UNIXversity of California at Berkeley Lines: 45 In article <1986Dec30.131352.22951@utcs.uucp> wagner@utcs.uucp (Michael Wagner) writes: >I'm having a problem either with VT100 or with Kermit, I'm not sure >which. > >To cut down on time, I compressed the files with compress(1). >It produces file names like strings.c.Z. Using Unix Kermit and VT100 (v2.2?) >on my Amiga, these come out as strings.cxz. Now I have to go back by hand >and change all these files to strings.c.z so that compress -d will uncompress >them. > >As a secondary problem (which I can live with), all my >nicely-thought-out mixed case file names are converted to lower case. >There seems to be a #defined constant that controls this. Is there any >reason not to turn this off? Are there any side effects? To the best of my knowledge, this is a "feature" of the Kermit protocol; I don't think vt100 is doing anything to the names, it's using them just as it receives them. The names are probably being "mangled" by the UNIX Kermit program, in accordance with the Kermit protocol definition. I messed with this issue for a while, and decided that I'd pretty much have to live with it. Then Mike Meyer gave me a better solution... Mike has written (or obtained; I'm not sure which) a little hack called 'tarsplit' which runs on the Amiga and splits standard-issue UNIX 'tar' files (subject to a couple of minor restrictions), and unpacks them into AmigaDOS directory structures. Neat stuff! So now, when I want to do major downloads, I organize all the stuff on the UNIX system into a directory (if I have more than about 750k of stuff, I use more than one top-level directory), run 'tar' on that directory, download the tar-file to a scratch disk, and run 'tarsplit' on the Amiga to unpack the tar-file onto a blank disk. It should be possible to run 'compress' on the tar-file before downloading and 'uncompress' afterwards, but I haven't tried that yet. I'll talk to Mike when he gets back from vacation, and see if I can get 'tarsplit' released. Brent -- Brent Chapman chapman@eris.berkeley.edu or ucbvax!eris!chapman