pathnames on NFS mounted Symbolics.

[Stephen Nicoud <snicoud@ATC.BOEING.COM>]

I'm running into difficulties because of the way some of my Symbolics
files are seen by my Sun host.  Here's an example directory listing
[edited for brevity] from my Symbolics:

SK:>erasmus>gbb>*.*.*
  1395 free, 9595/10990 used (87%) (LMFS records, 1 = 4544. 8-bit bytes)
  94 blocks in the files listed
      GBB-ERASMUS-SUPPORT-SYSTEM.LISP.14    1   2335(8) !  $08/10/89 13:00:17 (01/31/90) SLN
      gbb-erasmus-support-system.lisp.18    1   2803(8) !   08/29/89 15:49:56 (01/31/90) SLN
      gbb-erasmus-support-system.lisp.19    1   2821(8) !   08/29/89 15:50:51 (01/31/90) SLN

Note how one of the filenames is all uppercase.  This file was
originally saved on the Symbolics from an Explorer which, apparently,
specified uppercase.

>From my Sun, the same directory looks like this:

total 47
-rw-rw-rw-  1 nobody       2821 Jan 31 12:01 gbb-erasmus-support-system.lisp
-rw-rw-rw-  1 nobody       2821 Jan 31 12:01 gbb-erasmus-support-system.lisp
-rw-rw-rw-  1 nobody       2803 Jan 31 12:00 gbb-erasmus-support-system.lisp.~18~

Notice how there are two unversioned files with the same name
(apparently both referring to the version 19 file, at least according to
the file sizes).

This creates a problem when I attempt to move files around from my Sun
via tar.  For instance, after I do:

% cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xfBp -)

The files ending up in fromdir look like this:

-rw-rw-rw-  1 nobody       2821 Jan 31 12:01 gbb-erasmus-support-system.lisp
-rw-rw-rw-  1 nobody       2803 Jan 31 12:00 gbb-erasmus-support-system.lisp.~18~

Note that there are only two files (the two latest).

I guess I consider this a bug, but I was hoping that someone could show
me an easy way to rename the uppercase files to lowercase.  For SCT
purposes, it's important that I retain the file versions.  The only way
I know of is to rename them to some different, reboot, and rename them
back.  This apparently flushes the system of the bogus pathnames and
allows renaming them to all lowercase.  However, there are bunch of
files in UPPERCASE and this would take a great deal of tracking.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Steve

BTW, Genera 7.2, ILA-NFS 11.33.