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From: wittmann@erb1.engr.wisc.edu (art wittmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare
Message-ID: <321@erb1.engr.wisc.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 91 14:59:21 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.234900.11916@novell.com> <6614@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <6638@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <6698@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: wittmann@erb1.UUCP (art wittmann)
Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Center-University of Wisconsin-Madison
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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??
>
>Could someone at Novell comment on this?
>
>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?
>

Netware 3.x supports the idea of multiple name spaces, so, macs create
files with that adhere to the mac rules, Unix machines create files
that follow the Unix conventions.  

I just created a file called: arts_really_long_file_name, the file
created without a problem.  

On a DOS system the file appears to be called ARTS_REA, 
on a mac the file is: arts_really_long_file_name.

For macs, if the file name exceeds 32 characters, it's just truncated.

The only real problem that I've noticed is translating mac names into
NFS names.  spaces and slashes aren't translated into other characters,
so you may have problems referencing mac files from Unix systems.

Art

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