Subject: Re: Please help: long filenames not showing up
From: Mike Fedyk (mikefe@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue Aug 22 2000 - 02:26:05 EDT
> 32+ filenames in NetAtalk would need a better solution, you can't just
> take the Samba approach and say 'well programs that use that API are
> dying out', this solution that works most of the time will do.
Can we store something more in the .AppleDouble for this purpose?
Maybe we could even have symlinks in there with the appropriately
short name point to the actual file contained in the .AppleDouble's
parent dir? Just make a nightly cron job to deal with the dangling
symlinks from windows delete/renames and you're set.
Thinking of that. What happens if a pc user deletes a mac file that
had a resource fork in the .AppleDouble? Does afpd clean it up on the
fly? or do they just sit there wasting away?
> I've already hit the problem, with a user moving between Mac and PC.
> They couldnt see they long named files from the Mac. I've since found a
> reverse problem, some windows versions at least take great exception to
> files ending in just . (Users Imac died, now using a Windows 98 laptop,
> it refused to open files/folders with named ending in .)
I just had this happen for the today, for the first time. It was on a
win98 box. Haven't tested it from one of our NT workstations.
I started the transition from an unstable ASIP 6.1 the day before. So
far, this has been the only problem. :)
Mike
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