Subj : Filegate file releases.
To   : Janis Kracht
From : Vince Coen
Date : Wed Mar 01 2017 21:30:10

Hello Janis!

Wednesday March 01 2017 12:39, you wrote to Jon Justvig:

 > * Original Post FileGate
 > * Copied to IFDC

 > A reminder to ALL FDN Coordinators that you should ONLY be sending out
 > 8X3 filenames!

 > In otherwords, this DOES NOT WORK:

 > legl0055.tar.gz

 > To Jon: you need to store (not archive) this in a zip envelope, like
 > this:

 > zip -jm0 legl0055.zip legl0055.tar.gz

 > I thought we went through this before???

As I run Linux and mbse which is built for Linux I can handle standard long
names - they just pass through.  Oh, it also handles converting long names to
little one's for all systems marked as must have 8.3, mostly old Dos systems.



Vince

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