On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Raider wrote:
> Hi!
> I run minicom (not so sure what version, the one which comes with
> RedHat 4.2) to connect to some BBSes. And all's fine right now. But
> the problem is when I want to download something. If I don't run as
> root I receive an unable to download, permission denied. If I run it as
> rood all's fine but I receive a worning message which tells me not to
> run as root, unless I'm making changes to setup. Those BBSes are run
> under DOS and as far I can see, usually it's assumed that root owns
> them. But why can't I download. Is there a switch or something that I
> missed?
> The second question sounds like this: from one BBS I could download all
> files in lowercase. From another all files I downloaded were in
> uppercase. DOS is case-blind. But linux ain't. There is no problem
> with this, I can convert all names to lowercases, but what can be the
> technical explanation?
>
I guess that they use different BBS software. Since DOS doesn't care about
case, the software is free to interpret it as upper or lower case.
Frank
> TIA
> Raider
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
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