In <[log in to unmask]> John Clark <[log in to unmask]> writes:
 
> FTP suddenly becomes important when you need to transfer files (like the
> RYDERed version of HTTPD or some HTML documents) into HFS directories and
> the standard MPE methods that worked for years (WRQ file transfer) don't do
> it.  Having to upload to an MPE group and then manually copy/rename every
> file in a large set is a major chore.  I had to do this with the HTML
> version of a very large file layout manual from a software vendor (hypertext
> links between items, sets, occurances of the same item in different sets,
> etc.--neat stuff and a good enough reason to run a Web server over the LAN,
> let alone over the Internet).  This copy/rename routine isn't something one
> wants to do more than once :-)
 
Just FYI, the latest versions of Reflection handle HFS names just fine...
there were some quirks with earlier versions, but the 5.0 release does a very
nice job (you really need to pick the setup option that says you're using
a MPE/iX POSIX system). I've uploaded dozens of files into HFS directories,
lowercase names and all...
 
                                  -Chris Bartram