Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] iso filnames?
From: Joakim Ahlen (d97ahjo@olivia.ios.chalmers.se)
Date: Mon Dec 29 1997 - 18:27:53 EST
> Has anybody done any work to get netatalk to translate filenames to iso
> characters instead of the default :nn hexadecimal representation? This
> would help us a lot, since we use both macs and windows machines, as
> well as unix workstations. For windows, we use use Samba w/ "character
> set = iso8859-1". Is there something similar for the mac? Any ideas
> where in the code this conversion happens?
Hi Palle, as a fellow swede i've struggled with this problem too. My
problem was that our backup on our NT-machine, running over samba
taking backup of the files on our unix, couldn't take backup of
files with ':' in the filename. I poked around in the netatalk
code and found a way to change the colon into a percent-sign, so that
i file could look like "Sp%85r" instead of "Sp:85r". It worked
fine, only trouble with that, was that i couldn't get netatalk to
read both files with % and : in them, and I didn't want to remake
the entire filesystem and changing the name of all files - just too
risky.
I can find out which functions in the netatalk-code i edited, and you
can try and fix them up for use with 8859-1. I'm a lousy
C-programmer, but if you manage to get some improvements in the code,
please keep me posted, ok?
Oh, and by the way, Gott nytt år! ;)
//Jocke
Joakim Ahlen
MediaPrint, Uddevalla AB
Fax: +46 522 19276
email: joakim.ahlen@mediaprint.se
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