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List:       samba-vms
Subject:    RE: ODS5 Extended Filesystem Names + Samba
From:       Eckart Meyer <meyer () ifn ! ing ! tu-bs ! de>
Date:       1999-07-20 11:22:27
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> Are there any plans to implement support for ODS5 extended filenames in Samba? 
> I am interested in working on such a project, if it has not yet been
> accomplished.  
> 
> Looking at the code, it doesn't seem to be terribly hard to implement.  I've
> already made a few hacks to correct filenames. This has resulted in some
> functionality using smbclient with extended filenames on an ODS5 disk.

	It's already done - for the 2.0 release. However, I can't test
	this stuff since I don't have an ODS5 system. As far as I can see
	we only have to skip the encoding/decoding routines.

	Eckart

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