Re: Grind Archive.

[ustai@msuvx2.memst.edu]

In article <28qq39$b6s@r-node.io.org>, taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:
> In article <1993Oct3.140733.1@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au>, Jeff Dyason writes...
>> 
>> (2).	If possible it would be convenient for all file names to have only one
>> 	period as I and probably other people do all my downloading through
>> 	a VAX which only supports one period in file names. Once again
>> 	Sumex-aim also supports this which makes it easier to use mget
>> 	within ftp. The length is probably not too much of a problem but
>> 	should be less than 30 characters.
> 
>     This shouldn't be much of a problem.  The use of dashes to separate
> words in a filename is pretty much standard.  The one period can be used
> to tack on the *.shk or whatever.  OTOH, it would be a good idea to
> include the version number in a filename, and that requires a period.

	It doesn't really bother me that much to rename the files after I do a
mget on the vax here.  I say go for more descriptive file names as those
msdosified names really don't turn me on.  After downloading a bunch of stuff,
I usually leave it on my HD for a bit, and I usually download more stuff in the
mean time before I finally get the time to "process" the files.  I used to hate
having to guess what does A2CMP.SHK have in it when I have to go find a
specific archive on my HD or floptical.
	In line with this, when is TELCOM II ever coming out?? (Hi Jawaid! ;-)) 
I would really like to have a 16 bit telecom software so that I can download to
my HFS partition...
	Ciao.

-Tai