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From: pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark)
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Subject: Re: Special chars in Gatorbox Filenames
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Date: 1 Jun 90 06:33:26 GMT
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In-reply-to: km@mathcs.emory.edu's message of 31 May 90 13:24:26 GMT

There is a way to deal with this:
I'm not sure where exactly in the GatorShare software you find this, but one
of the configuration options (under the Advanced Options dialog box) lets you
set all sorts of things that haven't been implemented yet (such as secure NFS
& others), as well as timeouts & *characters to refuse*.

However, refuse is exactly what it does- someone trying to copy a file with
those characters in the name will get a 'disk error' dialog, and the file
won't be copied. No other explanation! Which makes some trouble for the
administrators.

Hopefully, there'll be a fix for this soon... but it hasn't happened yet (I'm
using release 1.4.1).

Out of curiosity, how does AUFS handle these tricky file names?

Pete Clark
Honeywell SRC
Minneapolis, Mn
pclark@src.honeywell.com