peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (01/23/89)
Why not just have the NFS server emulate the normal Amiga case-handling? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' Hackercorp. ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.uu.net 'U`
paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) (01/24/89)
In article <3317@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
->Why not just have the NFS server emulate the normal Amiga case-handling?
How? Try "newcli", "NEWCLI", "Newcli", "nEwcli", etc., until it gets it
right?
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ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.govpeter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (01/25/89)
In article <45@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: > In article <3317@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > ->Why not just have the NFS server emulate the normal Amiga case-handling? > How? Try "newcli", "NEWCLI", "Newcli", "nEwcli", etc., until it gets it > right? Hell no. Just Examine(), then do a bunch of ExNexts until you get one to match. How the Examine and ExNext's work over the net is pretty much irrelevent. You DO provide this functionality, don't you? I mean you can get a directory of the nfs-mounted file system from the Amiga, no? -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' Hackercorp. ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.uu.net 'U`
paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) (01/25/89)
In article <3328@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: ->In article <45@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: ->> In article <3317@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: ->> ->Why not just have the NFS server emulate the normal Amiga case-handling? -> ->> How? Try "newcli", "NEWCLI", "Newcli", "nEwcli", etc., until it gets it ->> right? -> ->Hell no. Just Examine(), then do a bunch of ExNexts until you get one to ->match. How the Examine and ExNext's work over the net is pretty much ->irrelevent. -> ->You DO provide this functionality, don't you? I mean you can get a directory ->of the nfs-mounted file system from the Amiga, no? You can certainly get a directory using "dir", or "ls", or other utilities. I have not tried to do Examine and ExNext within a program, but I would expect it would also work. However, the problem is that since a Sun, for example, has case sensitive file names, I could have the files "newcli" and "NEWCLI" stored on my server. When I do the Examine, how do I know which is the correct one? Note that this could never happen on the Amiga, because regardless of case, since if I had the file "newcli", and then stored "NEWCLI", the file would get overwritten. -- -+= SAM =+- "the best things in life are free" ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov
deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) (01/27/89)
I don't see what makes this so difficult to understand. The answer seems pretty obvious to me: first try the filename verbatim, and if it can't find the file, then do the Examine() and ExNext() calls, and find it if it is there, or return a file-not-found error. Then, if there is a NewCLI and a NEWCLI, "newcli" will find whichever happens to appear first in the directory (ambiguous, yes, but that's the price you pay for reusing names by changing case) while "NewCLI" will match "NewCLI" and "NEWCLI" will match "NEWCLI". Seems workable enough. (Granted, this would be nicer done at a lower level, preferably with some directory cacheing...) Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.
peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (01/27/89)
In article <46@snll-arpagw.UUCP>, paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: > is that since a Sun, for example, has case sensitive file names, I > could have the files "newcli" and "NEWCLI" stored on my server. When > I do the Examine, how do I know which is the correct one? Try for an exact match. If that fails go for the first in ASCII order, or some such heuristic. Currently what Ameristar does is go for an exact match, then go for a fully lowercased version... then fail. Note that even with this heuristic will deal properly with case-conserved files. If you keep trying instead of failing... -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' Hackercorp. ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.uu.net 'U`