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From: chapman@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Brent Chapman)
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Subject: Re: Kermit Problem with VT100
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 18:53:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:53:49 1986
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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
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