RE: ftp study (technical report)

Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org> Wed, 30 September 1992 18:08 UTC

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From: Christopher Davis <ckd@eff.org>
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To: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
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In-Reply-To: peterd@bunyip.com's message of Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:58:39 GMT
Subject: RE: ftp study (technical report)

Peter> == Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com> 

 Peter> Without falling back to the worst case (which I suspect is raw
 Peter> MS-DOS 8+3, but there might even be worse examples of brain
 Peter> damage I don't know about)

I believe the Kermit folks use 6.3 due to something that restricts
filenames to 6.6 (TOPS-10?).  This should be as portable as it gets.