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Date:      Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:11:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Stefan Bethke <stb@hanse.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Warning: Change to netatalk's file name handling
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980825140853.1236N-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980825220803.25049B-100000@transit.hanse.de>

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please check with jallison@eng.sgi.com
(or if that bounces get back to me)


he has patches we use at whistle to make 
netatalk do various code pages in a manner compatible with 
samba (which he is a primary developer of)

I think his patches already do something similar to what you want (but I'm
not sure)

julian

On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Stefan Bethke wrote:

> As you might be aware, Mac's tend to use characters in file names usually
> not used on UN*X systems, namely in the range \0x01-\0x1F and \0x7f-\0xff.
> 
> Especially annoing is the "Icon\0x0D" for Custom Icons on Folders or
> Volumes.
> 
> I will put a patch in the netatalk port that maps all characters outside
> of \0x20 to \0x7E (aka isprint()) to the equivalent hex ":xx" sequence.
> 
> This will break access to files which names contain characters in the
> range \0x01 to \0x1F; they no longer will be accessible from any AFP
> client (they will be visible, but the client will get a "file not found"
> error when trying to access it).
> 
> If nobody objects, I'll commit this the next few days.
> 
> Cheers,
> Stefan
> 
> --
> Stefan Bethke
> Muehlendamm 12            Phone: +49-40-256848, +49-177-3504009
> D-22087 Hamburg           <stefan.bethke@hanse.de>
> Hamburg, Germany          <stb@freebsd.org>
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