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In article <Aug09.201747.56693@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> flatau@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Piotr Flatau) writes:

   I am concerned with some of the new .sty packages and their distribution
   method. Case in point:

   I tried to get "float" style from niord.shsu.edu

   1. For the unknown to me reason all the names are changed. 
   E.g. 

   float.tex    is called      float.float_tex

   this requires, when FTPing, change of all file names!
   Time consuming task.

Not necessarily, if your ftp client supports filename mapping.
Most Unix ftp clients have the "nmap" command to transform filenames
when files are fetched.  For example,
  ftp> nmap $1.$2_$3 $2.$3
  ftp> get latex.titlepage_tex
would store the file locally as titlepage.tex

If you intend to use the "mget" command to get a wildcarded set of
files, and you're fetching from a VMS host which has file generation
numbers (such as niord, tex.ac.uk and ymir.claremont.edu), then it
helps to strip the ";n" generation using nmap as well:
  ftp> nmap $1.$2_$3;$4 $2.$3
so you can just say "mget latex.*" to get all the files with the
"latex." prefix and have that, and the generation numbers removed, and
the "xxx_yyy" that's left renamed as "xxx.yyy".

ftp usually has other useful commands for this sort of thing, like
"case" for mapping of case and "runique" for local use of `generation
numbers'.  Read the ftp(1) man page!

--David Osborne (pp UK TeX Archive group)
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--David Osborne
  Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham