[Info-vax] FTP is changing the FileName case from Uppercase to lowercase

Steven Schweda sms.antinode at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 14:38:22 EDT 2012


> I am FTP'ing files [...]

   Not a very detailed description of anything.  And these
files have secret names?  As usual, showing actual commands
with their actual output can be more helpful than vague
descriptions or interpretations.

> The filename of very file that is being transferred is
> being changed from UpperCase to LowerCase.

   "very" -> "every"?  Hidden in the FTP HELP for PUT:

[...]
         o  File names are copied in lowercase.
[...]

> I was hoping that there would be some logical I could set.

   With my weak psychic powers, I don't know what you did,
but you could try specifying a remote_file argument.

FTP> put TEST.EXE
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for test.exe.
226 Transfer complete.
local: ALP$DKC0:[SMS.ITRC]TEST.EXE;8  remote: test.exe
6656 bytes sent in 00:00:00.00 seconds (665.64 Kbytes/s)
FTP> put TEST.EXE TEST.EXE
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for TEST.EXE.
226 Transfer complete.
local: ALP$DKC0:[SMS.ITRC]TEST.EXE;8  remote: TEST.EXE
6656 bytes sent in 00:00:00.00 seconds (6.50 Mbytes/s)



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