Re: [netatalk-admins] Re: netatalk patch versions?


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Re: netatalk patch versions?
From: Kadinger Andras (bandit@freeside.elte.hu)
Date: Fri Sep 11 1998 - 12:31:33 EDT


On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Dave Makower wrote:
> Any chance that this version (or a future one) will support adding default
> types/creators that include spaces (such as 'ZIP ', which is very common)
> in the AppleVolumes file? I've asked about this before but never received
> a response. I can't imagine it would be very hard to introduce some kind
> of encoding scheme to make this possible.

Hmm, sprintf() comes to mind... slicing the string from the config file
around whitespace (just as is happens now I guess), and then sprintf-ing
the resulting strings e.g. into the 4-byte TYPE/CREATOR fields should make
escaping spaces or other characters easy.

Regards,
Andras



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