mckimg@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (03/04/91)
In article <6698@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes: >In article <6638@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes: >>It's not only not the cheapest, it's also quite deficient. How many >>Unix people are going to like the filenaming limitations imposed by >>the DOS filesystem? (eight characters, then a dot, then three more; >>characters like comma and plus are restricted; etc.) > >Rich, are you pulling my leg, or does a Novell NFS file server >impose DOS filename restrictions on the NFS client?? > ... >In the same vein, is this also true for Macintosh naming conventions >when using a Netware server with Appletalk support as an Apple AFP >fileserver? > I thought that this was the whole point of modular namespaces in Netware 3.0/3.1. If AFP and NFS files were restricted to DOS naming conventions, then namespaces wouldn't have a raison d'etre. ========================================================================= Geoffrey W. McKim Internet: mckimg@ucs.indiana.edu UCS Networks/LAN Group BITNET: mckimg@iuamber Indiana University Bloomington 855-4643 "If education cannot help to separate truth from falsehood, beauty from vulgarity, right from wrong, then what can it teach us?" =========================================================================
rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge) (03/06/91)
mckimg@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu writes: > >In article <6698@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes: >>Rich, are you pulling my leg, or does a Novell NFS file server >>impose DOS filename restrictions on the NFS client?? >>In the same vein, is this also true for Macintosh naming conventions >>when using a Netware server with Appletalk support as an Apple AFP >>fileserver? Don't know about NFS naming conventions, but NetWare for Macintosh DOES support Mac naming conventions, allowing a full 32 characters. When accessed from DOS, those file names are compressed according to a set of quite simple rules - illegal characters are stripped, and files whose names would not be unique through simple truncation are further truncated and suffixed with serial numbers in the file extension. I would imagine a similar thing happens to NFS file names. DOS file names, since they are a brain-dead subset of NFS/MAC-legal names, appear in those systems in their DOS form. When files are renamed from one filesystem to another, the most recent convention in use overrides the previous conventions. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rick Rutledge {hoptoad|ucsfcca|claris}!wet!rick rick@wet.UUCP Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed. (Preamble to the constitution of UNESCO)