On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 20:07 America/Montreal, Darren J Moffat wrote:
Since rcp is a historically a UNIX protocol it doesn't (at least to me, but probably not to everyone) seem unreasonable that a server providing access via rcp should do the work of mapping UNIX style names to its style.
To confirm and be more precise, RCP was invented at UC Berkeley as part of the BSD UNIX distributions. So the protocol has always been UNIX-centric for those reasons. It is far too late in the day to be proposing any changes to RCP in that regard. IMHO, Ran