Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] iso filnames?
From: Palle Girgensohn (girgen@partitur.se)
Date: Tue Dec 30 1997 - 05:24:53 EST
Hello Julian,
Yes, I would be much obliged. Please send them. I suggest including the
patches in the netatalk distribution, BTW.
Best regards, and a happy new year!
/Palle
Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> Whistle (www.whistle.com) added ISO code support for
> netatalk and SAMBA so that our products (in Norway actually)
> can exchange files between PCs and MACs and see the same name on both.
> As teh SAMBA co-ordinator works for us teh samba patches ar enow part of
> the mainstream samba, but teh netatalk patches are not yet integrated.
>
> send me email if you want the changes (relative to 1.4b2(approx))
>
> I may need some days to get them together however. as everyone is away for
> holidays.
> The advantage with these patches is that they interact perfectly with teh
> samba codepages of the same name :)
>
> julian
>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>
> > 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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