Subj : R50 areas
To   : Bob Seaborn
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Wed Aug 30 2017 12:01:28

Hi Bob,

>> Monday August 28 2017, Bob Seaborn wrote to Janis Kracht:
>>
>>>> I've connected Michael Dukelsky to this echo today.
>>>> Michael sends out the R50 file echos.
>> BS> Sure hope he does NOT distribute LFN files!
>>
>> No, I never hatch files with long file names, but I cannot prevent
>> others from doing it, I can only ask not to do it.


>I believe the way things work, is that others send you the files, and you send
>them on to the Filegate System.  Should someone send you a file with a LFN,
>why don't you simply pack it into an 8.3 archive, with a note inside that
>explains hat it's a LFN file?  To my thinking, that should be the simplest
>method of ensuring the Filegate only gets 8.3 files, yes?  Then you send the
>originator note that advises them that LFN's are strongly discouraged.


Bob, that is not an easy thing to do... Distribution in general works much better if all involved use 8X3 filenames with zip compression to start with.

If a file must be put in a zip file as you suggest, we STORE it, not ARCHIVE it.  (zip -jm0 filename.zip filename.???).  Archiving a previously archived file (rar, tar.bz, tar.bz2, etc.) makes is larger than the original.

Anyway, that is why I contacted the fellow in Russia, Alexandr Kruglikov, who compiled these MAC files and sent them to Michael Dukelsky.

I explained to Aleksansr that we must use 8X3 filenames and zip is the preferred compression method (but if you are sending a previously archived file, repack it with zip or _store_ it in a zip 'envelope'.)

Aleksandr and I have been discussing this in netmail, and I have offered to help him if he needs it.

Take care,
Janis

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