TRANSFER Installation and Management Guide

Naming Conventions
Defining a TRANSFER System
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Naming Conventions You must use certain naming conventions in naming TRANSFER and PATHWAY
objects. Following these conventions, process names are automatically generated from
name specifications entered in the define files. The naming conventions cover:
Character sets
Simple TRANSFER names
TRANSFER X400 domain names
National language support
PATHWAY process names
Process name generation
Default process names
Name generation for PATHWAY objects
Process priority values
Additional conventions provide for assigning process priorities.
The following paragraphs discuss these conventions and their use and limitations.
TRANSFER and Character
Sets
There are three classes of characters involved when you use TRANSFER. These
include:
The text in users’ messages and subject lines
TRANSFER does nothing with this text. A user’s message text and subject line is
stored as a binary pattern, transported as a binary pattern, and displayed as a
binary pattern. If the receiving device displays characters different from the
creating device, no accommodation is made. For example, an a-umlaut typed on a
German terminal in German 7-bit mode is displayed as { on a German terminal in
8-bit (ISO 8859) mode or a USASCII terminal because the hex 7B value is never
changed.
The text on screen labels, such as advice messages and column headings
TRANSFER can apply the correct terminal mapping, as explained later in this
section. For example, an a-umlaut appears correctly on both a German 7-bit and
8-bit terminal; it is mapped to the error character * on a USASCII terminal.
TRANSFER names for correspondents, distribution lists, folders, and named items
within folders
TRANSFER can accept a name character set that enables users to spell these names
correctly and still get mail from colleagues who do not have the same terminals.
For example, an a-umlaut appears correctly on both German 7-bit and 8-bit
terminals; it is mapped to :a on a USASCII terminal.