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From: wagner@utcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Kermit Problem with VT100
Message-ID: <1987Jan14.184108.12286@utcs.uucp>
Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 18:41:08 EST
Article-I.D.: utcs.1987Jan14.184108.12286
Posted: Wed Jan 14 18:41:08 1987
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References: <1986Dec30.131352.22951@utcs.uucp> <2072@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <958@ur-tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner)
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In article <958@ur-tut.UUCP> dpvc@ur-tut.UUCP (Davide Cervone) writes:
>>In article <1986Dec30.131352.22951@utcs.uucp> wagner@utcs.uucp (Michael Wagner) writes:
>> [I write about my problems with file name mangling with C-kermit and VT100]
>
>For C-Kermit based Kermits (like unix kermit and Jack Rouse's Amiga Kermit), 
>you can use the command SET FILE NAMES LITERAL to suppress file name 
>translation.  I haven't used VT100, so I don't know whether is has such an
>options, but if you set literal file names on the unix side, it should at 
>least avoid having the second period turned into an "x" (that's being done at 
>the unix end).  I don't know where the case change is ocurring, but I suspect
>it's at the Amiga end.  If you use Amiga C-Kermit (available from Columbia 
>University for free, and I think it's on a Fish Disk, too), you get the SET FILE
>NAMES LITERAL command, so that should avoid the case problem, too.
>
>Hope this helps.

Actually, I now run with set file name literal on the unix side (it's in my
.kermrc file), and it doesn't seem to help.  Not sure why.

Michael