Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:20:06 -0500 From: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: samba, rsync --backup, and mangled instead of long filenames Message-ID: <53A3C486.0@my.hennepintech.edu> In-Reply-To: <20140620064405.07e6428b.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <489659738.13024627.1403216558777.JavaMail.root@cds005> <53A38A96.2000903@gmail.com> <20140620064405.07e6428b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 2014.06.19 23:44, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:12:54 -0500, Noel wrote: >> Yes, the colons will break windows compatibility. > > And make sure file names aren't too long, because long file names > are also not accepted in the "Windows" land of non-compatibility > and non-interoperability. ;-) To be fair, this is more of an application issue than Windows itself since Windows does provide an API for long file names, and applications that use it can work with long file names just fine.
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