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Update on 8-bit character filenames in AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reid M. Pinchback)
Thu Jun 30 09:55:28 1994
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 09:55:01 EDT
From: "Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
As an update to the report I sent earlier this week regarding
8-bit character filename problems associated with AFS and MAE,
here is a statement from Transarc.
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From: Joseph_Jackson@transarc.com
To: mae-users@medraut.apple.com, reidmp@MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Extremely gross filenames
In-Reply-To: <9406271631.AA15148@whirlwind.MIT.EDU>
References: <9406271631.AA15148@whirlwind.MIT.EDU>
In a future release of AFS, the restriction on "funny" characters in
filenames will be removed. The AFS defect number associated with this
issue is #5244. The fix will definitely be in the AFS 3.4 release,
but didn't make it into the AFS 3.3a release. For more info, have
your AFS administrator (site contact) get in touch with AFS Product
Support.
Joe Jackson,
AFS Product Engineer,
Transarc Corp.
"Reid M. Pinchback" <reidmp@mit.edu> writes:
> Mostly I've been pretty impressed with MAE, particularly considering
> that it is a version 1.0 product, but I must say that one aspect of it
> is rather gross. On the Unix side of things, the filenames use some
> very strange characters. When working on a local Sun filesystem this
> doesn't seem to cause a problem, but so far I'm finding that I can't
> create such filenames in AFS, thus 'tar' or 'cp' can't be used to copy
> files off of the local workstation. I'm not sure if this should be
> attributed to an generic AFS bug, or a configuration problem in our
> local implementation of AFS, or to MAE. However, I'd like to propose
> a possible solution that you might want to allow as an MAE
> command-line option.
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