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From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Special chars in Gatorbox Filenames
Message-ID: <5592@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 31 May 90 13:24:26 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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I notice that at least in the (year old) release of the Gatorbox
software we are running, there is no provision for handling Macintosh
filenames containing characters that cannot be embedded in Unix
filenames, for example "/".

The tech manual says that this will be handled in later releases. Has
this happened yet?

Is there a standard for handling this? Certainly it would not be hard
to develop an "escape" mechanism for special characters. However, one
would want the same mechanism used by the Gatorbox, and say A/UX, so
that one set of files could be distributed to both by NFS.
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