Re: Problem with '/' in archieve name

Dennis O'Neill (denio@scubed.scubed.com)
Mon, 31 Jan 1994 13:10:46 -0500 (EST)

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> > I maintain a multi-part FAQ using the standard archive names of:
> > faq/part1
> ...
>
> The slashes in the archive-name *are* [UNIX] directory separators. ...
>
> To retrieve these files from the rtfm archive, just cd to the proper
> directory, ... and retrieve the files Part1 ... that are there:

I, for one, dislike the naming convention of using nonunique filenames
like "part1" under a unique directory. Since the filenames are nonunique,
it becomes cumbersome to recover FAQs in an automated way: one must move
the recovered "part1" files to, say, "unique_name.part1" before proceeding
to the next directory of interest.

I'd like to lobby for a name convention change, so that the names at the
file level are unique across the entire news.answers directory at
rtfm.mit.edu. The "part#" could be used as a suffix.

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Dennis O'Neill             denio@s3reston.scubed.com              703-476-5197
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