On 5 Jun 03 at 10:08, Greg Mayman wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:03:01 +0900, Kali Mclaughlin wrote: > > > I use Telix as a wonderful program for establising communication to > > other platforms and retrieving files. What goes wrong most commonly is > > LFN. Does anyone have ideas for making telix "see" long filenames? > > No, I don't unfortunately. But there may be a work-around. > > IIRC doing downloads with X-modem requires you to enter the name that > the received file is to be saved under, whereas Y- and Z-modem preserve the > original name and date of the file during the download. > > So using X-modem for your file downloads should solve the problem. The only > hard part is that you need to work out what the new filename is to be.
Daily, I download html pages (as text) from a UNIX shell that uses LYNX, using Kermits and Z-modem. In both cases, I can rename those files. Some CNN news can be named as 1.5.1 or 3.4.2 If I forget to rename them, I can disconect the phone line only by rebooting the computer. Free good Sans Serif fonts for MS-DOS at: http://www.limasa.com.ar/novafont.zip Configurable dialing menu for several DOS internet programs at: http://www.limasa.com.ar/dial_ip.zip ---------------------- Ing. Alejandro Lieber Rosario Argentina lima[at]citynet.net.ar ----------------------
