Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!think.com!linus!philabs!ttidca!alter From: alter@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename. Message-ID: <23358@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: 14 Feb 91 05:41:03 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica Lines: 20 At last, a package that avoids this problem altogether! I'm installing and testing the uShare software from Information Presentation Technologies, Inc. It provides, among other things, an AppleShare Server daemon for SunOS systems. I don't know if anybody else does this (yet) but uShare prevents the '/' from getting into the filename in the first place. When you create a file from a Mac in a uShare AppleShare volume, any characters that Unix might not like (slashes, control characters, bytes with the 8th bit, etc.) are converted into some strange notation (possibly hexadecimal digits) and prefixed with a ':'. Since the colon is invalid as part of a Mac filename (it's used to separate folder names in a path and the "Save File" dialog either ignores it or turns it into a hyphen) it's certainly available to protect the filename on the Unix side. -- Steve Alter {philabs,psivax,pyramid,quad1,rdlvax,retix,rutgers}!ttidca!alter Transaction Technology Inc. a subsidiary of Citicorp (213) 450-9111 x2541