Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] iso filnames?
From: Palle Girgensohn (girgen@partitur.se)
Date: Mon Dec 29 1997 - 18:04:05 EST
Tjenare Joakim!
If you can find out which files you edited, I'll be much obliged!
Thanks!
And Gott nytt år!
/palle
Joakim Ahlen wrote:
>
> > 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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