Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] forbidden characters on pc
From: Mike Rigby (micheleen@fastnet.co.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 19 1998 - 11:08:47 EST
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:23:57 +0100, chris thoen <christ@netit.be>
wrote:
>We use a linux fileserver with a mix of macs (netatalk) and pc's
>(Samba).
>Is it possible in netatalk to put some filter in de filenames that can
>be used, so Samba doen't have a problem with deleting files.
>f.i. sometimes the MACS create a file 'Icon\r' (with \r a carriage
>return). For a pc-user , it is impossible to delete a directory
>with such a file.
>
>Does anybody knows a solution for this?
>
There used to be a utility called rm ( no surprise ) for dos/windows.
The program was rm.exe and as far as I remember coped with any file by
judicious use of wildcards in the filename to delete.
I found it on compuserve a few years ago but I don't know if it's
still there.
Regards,
Mike
Mike Rigby
Who is General Failure and why is he reading Drive C
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