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From: mckimg@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu
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Subject: UNIX/DOS/MAC namespaces
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.163912.174@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 16:39:05 GMT
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In article <6698@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <6638@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>>It's not only not the cheapest, it's also quite deficient.  How many
>>Unix people are going to like the filenaming limitations imposed by
>>the DOS filesystem?  (eight characters, then a dot, then three more;
>>characters like comma and plus are restricted; etc.)
>
>Rich, are you pulling my leg, or does a Novell NFS file server
>impose DOS filename restrictions on the NFS client??
>
...
>In the same vein, is this also true for Macintosh naming conventions
>when using a Netware server with Appletalk support as an Apple AFP
>fileserver?
>
I thought that this was the whole point of modular namespaces in Netware
3.0/3.1.  If AFP and NFS files were restricted to DOS naming conventions,
then namespaces wouldn't have a raison d'etre.

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