Re: EFS 1.6 bug: bug or not?

sandy@ibm550.sissa.it
Thu, 19 May 1994 21:30:09 +0200


>>>>> On Thu, 21 Apr 94 16:19:47 -0400,
      Edward Hartnett <ejh@larry.gsfc.nasa.gov> said:

 > I got a message from a guy suggesting I try to get a package and try
 > it out. Here's the line from his message:

 >   Ok, ftp.Lehigh.EDU, file pub/evap/evap-2.x/evap-2.1.tar.Z-beta.

 > So I used the mouse to grab the machine name from his message, which,
 > as you can see, has the L in Lehigh and the EDU all in caps.
 > Everything worked fine, but when I tried to copy a file efs got
 > confused because it had converted the name of the machine to all
 > lowercase, but when it tried to copy the file it looked for a buffer
 > *ftp anonymous@ftp.Lehigh.EDU* and there was none, there was only *ftp
 > anonymous@ftp.lehigh.edu*

 > Whether this is a bug or not is a matter of opinion.

Looks like a bug to me.  I've fixed it. Thanks.

--sandy