Subject: [netatalk-admins] Re:Netatalk and control characters
From: Jan Dockx (Jan.Dockx@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Date: Thu May 07 1998 - 04:48:52 EDT
>BTW there is a very strong case for saying that any shell script which
>deals with files on a filesystem, and which cannot handle names which are
>legal on that filesystem, is broken, notwithstanding the fact that it may
>rarely if ever see such filenames.
Agreed. But there is such a thing as "reality". ;-)
>
>>I still think that control characters should be mapped too. PC Exchange
>>does so, by the way ("icon%0d" via Dave/Samba).
>So change it - you have the source, and it can't be that difficult to
>modify the range of characters which are mapped. In fact, you should change
>it, make it a compile time option, and give the diffs back to the
>community. :-)
>
>From Andras Kadinger:
=====
Try this; this adds converting char code 13, that is, ^M. Untested, but
very simple and straightforward.
Hope, this helps,
Sincerely,
Andras Kadinger
bandit@freeside.elte.hu
--- etc/afpd/desktop.c.orig Thu May 7 01:13:47 1998
+++ etc/afpd/desktop.c Thu May 7 01:14:43 1998
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@
m = mpath;
u = upath;
while ( *m != '\0' ) {
- if ( !isascii( *m ) || *m == '/' || ( i == 0 && *m == '.' )) {
+ if ( !isascii( *m ) || *m == '/' || ( i == 0 && *m == '.' ) ||
*m == 13) {
*u++ = ':';
*u++ = hexdig[ ( *m & 0xf0 ) >> 4 ];
*u++ = hexdig[ *m & 0x0f ];
=======
>>And now that we are on the topic, netatalk should "strip" "some"
>extensions
>>before presenting a filename to the Mac (and add them from the
>AppleVolumes
>>files). We would "win" 4 characters for a filename most of the time. "A
>>Document.doc" is fine for the unix side, and needed for samba users, but
>>I'd like to see it as "A Document".
>
>And if you had two files called "A Document" and "A Document.doc" what
>would you like to see ?
>
Same difference with netatalk cutting very long file names to 31 chars.
Jan Dockx - assistent (Jan.Dockx@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
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