Re: Changing Uppercase filenames into Lowercase

From: Fred Bach (music_at_triumf.ca)
Date: 08/13/05 

Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:23:03 -0700

David J Dachtera wrote:

> Fred Bach wrote:

   [snip]

>> But am I missing something easy? Is there any other
>> way to easily rename filenames to lowercase? Has
>> something just zipped right over my head? Searches on
>> google.com and Openvms.org didn't produce useful results.
>
>
> Most FTP clients for VMS seem to convert upper to lower when the target
> is non-VMS for me.
>

    Here's an edited screen copy of my problem transfer
    from a local alpha machine running OpenVMS 7.3-2
    to a remote machine running a current version of RedHat
    linux. (Only the node & user names have been changed
    to protect the innocent.) The VMS filenames are all
    uppercase in this instance, and they get transferred to
    linux as uppercase. If I use MAKELOWER.COM to make the
    filenames all lowercase on VMS, then they transfer to
    linux as lowercase. Seems that my FTP is preserving
    case while transferring files from VMS to linux.

    Is there some command I can use to tell FTP to create
    lowercase filenames at the remote linux end from uppercase
    filenames at the VMS end?

    Thanks.

  .. fred bach .. music@triumf.ca

_BN2> ftp xxxxx.triumf.ca
yyyyy.triumf.ca MultiNet FTP user process V4.4(119)
Connection opened (Assuming 8-bit connections)
<xxxxx.triumf.ca FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2-11.73.1) ready.
XXXXX.TRIUMF.CA>login zzzzz
<Password required for zzzzz.
Password:
<User zzzzz logged in. Access restrictions apply.
XXXXX.TRIUMF.CA>cd test
<CWD command successful.
XXXXX.TRIUMF.CA>mput KEY*.*
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY91A.DOC.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY91A.TEXT.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY92A.DOC.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY92A.TEXT.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY93A.TEXT.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY94.DOC.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY94.TEXT.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY95.DOC.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY95.TEXT.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY96.DOC.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY96.TEXT.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY96_BASE.DOC.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY96_ISAC.DOC.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY97_BASE.TEXT.
<Transfer complete.
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for KEY97_ISAC.TEXT.
<Transfer complete.
XXXXX.TRIUMF.CA>dir
<Opening ASCII mode data connection for directory listing.
total 344
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 9313 Aug 12 14:12 KEY91A.DOC
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 2367 Aug 12 14:12 KEY91A.TEXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 8105 Aug 12 14:12 KEY92A.DOC
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 3680 Aug 12 14:12 KEY92A.TEXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 4115 Aug 12 14:12 KEY93A.TEXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 6656 Aug 12 14:12 KEY94.DOC
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 4443 Aug 12 14:12 KEY94.TEXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 28347 Aug 12 14:12 KEY95.DOC
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 4831 Aug 12 14:12 KEY95.TEXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 22528 Aug 12 14:12 KEY96.DOC
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 2815 Aug 12 14:12 KEY96.TEXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 22528 Aug 12 14:12 KEY96_BASE.DOC
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 19456 Aug 12 14:12 KEY96_ISAC.DOC
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 4922 Aug 12 14:12 KEY97_BASE.TEXT
-rw-r--r-- 1 2119 100 1069 Aug 12 14:12 KEY97_ISAC.TEXT
<Transfer complete.

  ------------------------

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