Re: LEGENDS FTPing Items lists

From: pmf@astro.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers)

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1993 14:23:39 +0000

In article 2C70F491@attila.efhd.ford.com, ccharnle@attila.efhd.ford.com (Chip Charnley) writes:
>Dean (or whoever is maintaining these item's lists),
>
>May I suggest that you change the names of the files so that the module (coa,
>NIC, RTI, etc.) is at the beginning of the name. This serves two purposes...
>
>1) if you are keeping lots of files about the different modules together, it
>makes it easier to do a directory listing of just the files associated with a
>given module.
>
>2) For those of us that happen to be using a PC, it allows us to download all
>the files en mass and still guarentee unique file names for all the files
>(check out how your file names would truncate to 8 char if done on or after
>the 10th of the month.)
>
>Chip Charnley

Your wish is my command master....

The directory now has three (!) names for each file (well at the moment anyway).
eg. 13-8-93coa.lis = co130893.lis = coa-items.lis

I'll try and make sure that the latest versions are always in as:
coa-items.lis, nic-items.lis & roi-items.lis

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References

LEGENDS FTPing Items lists
ccharnle@attila.efhd.ford.com (Chip Charnley)
Tue, 17 Aug 1993 15:09:06 +0000