Re: Directory structure of FAQ archives

Snakes of Medusa (mathew@mantis.co.uk)
3 Feb 1994 12:42:30 -0000

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In article <Pine.3.07.9402021028.H29713-b100000@dl5000.bc.edu>,
Morgan Stair <Morgan_Stair@dl5000.bc.edu> wrote:
>I'm NOT saying to throw out the current scheme, it would be horrible to make
>everyone live with 14 character file names, but perhaps a second set of files or
>an alternate tree structure on news.answers that gets generated automatically
>for people on generally 'challenged' operating systems.

I'm using MS-DOS, which is about as challenged as an OS can get.
Nevertheless, the FTP client I use translates long filenames into 8.3
filenames which DOS requires, and removes 'naughty' characters like spaces.

>I know something like this may mean updating the news.answers archiving
>software, but at least the problem becomes centralized (ie. it can be fixed at
>one location: news.answers).

The "problem" is caused by godawful OSes and bad FTP software. That's where
it should be fixed.

mathew

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