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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Warning: Change to netatalk's file name handling
In-Reply-To: <199808261942.MAA23260@bubba.whistle.com> from Archie Cobbs at "Aug 26, 98 12:42:29 pm"
To: stb@hanse.de
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:56:59 -0700 (PDT)
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I 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.
> 
> I don't quite understand the motivation for changing netatalk. UNIX
> supports arbitrary characters in file names, so why not use it?
> 
> If you want file names decoded in a directory listing, use "ls -B".
> 
> Netatalk seems like the wrong place to modify behavior to solve this
> problem, which is a display problem, not an encoding problem.

Or, at least make it controlled by a optional command line option...

-Archie

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