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From: rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: UNIX/DOS/MAC namespaces
Message-ID: <2175@wet.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 91 03:57:05 GMT
References: <1991Mar3.163912.174@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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mckimg@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>In article <6698@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>>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?
Don't know about NFS naming conventions, but NetWare for Macintosh DOES
support Mac naming conventions, allowing a full 32 characters.  When
accessed from DOS, those file names are compressed according to a set of
quite simple rules - illegal characters are stripped, and files whose names
would not be unique through simple truncation are further truncated and
suffixed with serial numbers in the file extension.

I would imagine a similar thing happens to NFS file names.  DOS file names,
since they are a brain-dead subset of NFS/MAC-legal names, appear in those
systems in their DOS form.  When files are renamed from one filesystem to
another, the most recent convention in use overrides the previous
conventions.

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