Subject: Re: using the ftpconversions file

From: [email-masked] (Harald Milz)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 20:10 +0100 (MET)

Casey Claiborne ([email-masked]) wrote:
>         How does one make a definition in the ftpconversions file
> so when files with an extension of ".htm" are uploaded, the extension
> is converted to ".html"? 

 :.htm: :.html:/bin/cat %s:T_REG|T_ASCII:O_COMPRESS:NOTHING

Now you can "get foo.html" instead of "get foo.htm". The FTP server must
offer /bin/cat, though.

Why the heck would you do that? 

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Harald Milz ([email-masked], [email-masked]), iX Magazine

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From: Tim Villa - ECS <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 14:09:44 +0800 (WST)

> Why the heck would you do that? 
Downloading to/uploading from DOS clients I would suggest (3 char ext's).
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