Naming/Format conventions for INDEX files

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Just a further commentary to those of you wanting to automate ftp
retrieval. Several systems (I thought VMS was one of them, but
apparently not) require that each subdirectory be individually cd'd
into, then the file retrieved. So for file "/foo/bar/baz"
	cd foo
	cd bar
	get baz
Other systems (like Andrew-based systems I think) require exactly the
opposite. That is, you have to cd the whole path at once, for some
security reason, then get the file, as in:
	cd foo/bar
	get baz
The latest version of xarchie (due out later this summer) supports
more complicated file retrievals, but I haven't yet decided what to do
about this. I think I'll try the whole cd, and if it fails try the
one-step-at-a-time approach.

In any event, this subject was hashed out in some other forum a while
back (comp.archives.admin?). I doubt that any consensus was reached.

George
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