Re: [MacPerl] rcp using MacPerl?

[Mark Manning/Simulacron I <markem@flash.net>]

Well, actually, a couple of things:

1. RCP is not in use with many sites because of the security violations
it causes.  RCP was found out to have to run under root and this led to
problems.  Which is why the sysadmin of your system probably has it
turned off for you.

2. Not allowing spaces and special characters into filenames is also
pretty standard for more Unix sites.  This is because if it was allowed
people would then try uploading something like "myfile;rm *;.dat" which
would embed a remove command into the filename.  This would be a very
nasty thing to do to someone.  Not to mention you would then also be
able to include such things as Control-D which on a Unix box terminates
the communication line but doesn't necessarily log you off of the
system.

So there are really valid reasons why they don't want you to have spaces
or to use RCP.

Now my question is - why not make your filenames use underscores between
the words?  Looks the same as with spaces if you are using HREF because
on most systems the underscore and the underline are the same.  IE v4 I
believe correctly makes a double line when dealing with underscore
versus underline.  But NS has always had a single line under the text.

So_you_can_have_filenames_which_are_very_long_like_this.

Have fun!  :-)

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