TRANSFER Administration Guide Volume 1 Reference Manual

Naming Rules
Getting Started with ADMIN
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From any Help screen, you return to the screen from which you requested help by
pressing F16 or go to the ADMIN MAIN MENU by pressing SF16.
Naming Rules Before using ADMIN to perform TRANSFER administrative functions, you need to be
familiar with the rules for entering names on the ADMIN screens. Names entered
include those for TRANSFER correspondents, interest groups, distribution lists, and
folders. Names for X400 correspondents are governed by a separate set of rules.
Naming TRANSFER
Objects
Rules for naming TRANSFER objects are flexible enough to allow user installations to
establish their own conventions for naming each type of object. Objects include
correspondents, interest groups, distribution lists, and folders. Guidelines for naming
correspondents and other objects can be important because their names must be
entered exactly as originally recorded, unless you use the wild-card feature described
later in this section.
Each of the following names must be unique on a node:
Each TRANSFER correspondent name
Each interest group name
Each distribution list name belonging to the PUBLIC interest group
Within a private or group depot, each folder and distribution list name must be
unique.
The following naming rules apply for creating TRANSFER correspondents, interest
groups, distribution lists, and folders:
Names must be 32 characters or less.
Names can include:
The letters A through Z (uppercase and lowercase are equivalent)
The numerals 0 through 9
Hyphen (-) and underscore (_)
À, Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Å, Æ, Ç, È, É, Ê, Ë, Ì, Í, Î, Ï, Ñ, Ò, Õ, Ô, Ö, Ø, Ù, Ú, Û, Ü, Ÿ, and ß
(If your users do not have these national language characters on their
keyboards, find out what key combinations they can type to represent them.
Your system manager can tell you which characters have been mapped for
your TRANSFER delivery system.)
Blanks and periods are not allowed in a simple name.
The symbol used as the TRANSFER default system trigger, preceding a node
name, cannot be used as a character in a TRANSFER name. Usually the
commercial at (@) symbol introduces the node; for example, @LA.
If a character map (such as the French or German) does not include the @ symbol,
TRANSFER uses the ampersand (&) as the system trigger character.