Date   : Mon, 20 Feb 1984 18:45:00-PST
From   : BILLW@sri-kl
Subject: Re: dysan head alignment program/disk

Yes, it depends on the FTP user program.  The TOPS20 ftp server
defaults unspecified parts of the filename to *, so just a
DIR FILENAME will  actually find FILENAME.*.  By the way, the
tops20 filename format is <directory>filename.extension.version,
its only a sometime used cpm convention that the extension contain
the program version number. directory, filename, and extension can
all be up to 39 characters long, and version is a number less than
some large decimal number.  The tops20 FTP code also contains a
check so that an wildcard directorys cannot be used (presumably,
this is to prevent people from using large amounts of CPU time
doing a directory of the entire file system).  Perhaps this
restriction should be removed from the SIMTEL system ?

BillW