| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
I have a customer who is coverting their file cabinet from another
envionment, DG CEO, to ALL-IN-1 IOS.
They are now in the process of automating the file cabinet load and are
wanting to create IOS drawers with drawer names that include what
seem to be some unsupported characters. At this stage of developemnt
they have removed the checking done for the drawer name characters
in FC_VALID_DRAWER_NAME.
After checking the script I assume that the five characters strings
" [ ] ' :: checked for are not supported as they are likely to cause
problems with other IOS commands and environments. Is this correct?
Are these the only characters that are not supported in the drawer
names, for example, dots seems OK.
Also, why are some of these characters, especially the apostrophe,
not able to be included in the display name of a drawer.
Thanks..Liz
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| 3746.1 | IOSG::STANDAGE | Mon Jan 10 1994 14:38 | 28 | ||
Liz,
Yes, from IOS you are not allowed to create drawers containing
"'[] or ::
This is due to the way in which IOS constructs the drawer string. For
example, a remote drawer can look like:
NODE::"[USER]REMOTE_DRAWER"
...this string becomes rather complicated to manipulate if you can
include drawer names with some of these special characters.
TeamLinks is a little less strict in this area, and I don't believe
there are such tight controls over drawer naming convensions. However,
the TeamLinks client does not have a problem using a drawer with a name
such as [HELLO]", but from IOS this might well lead to problems.
It's more a case of different clients handling things in different
ways. My advice is stay clear from those speical exceptions and you
should be ok on both platforms.
Hope this helps,
Kevin.
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| 3746.2 | Cross-reference | AIMTEC::WICKS_A | Atlanta's Most (In)famous Welshman | Mon Jan 10 1994 16:37 | 9 |
Liz,
As you'll know from personal experience (note 3228 in Windows_Office)
TeamLinks created drawers are not very popular with certain bits of
ALL-IN-1 System Management such as MDK.
regards,
Andrew.D.Wicks
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| 3746.3 | Different bugs | IOSG::TALLETT | Gimmee an Alpha colour WinPad! | Mon Jan 10 1994 17:28 | 10 |
> TeamLinks is a little less strict in this area, and I don't believe
> there are such tight controls over drawer naming convensions. However,
> the TeamLinks client does not have a problem using a drawer with a name
> such as [HELLO]", but from IOS this might well lead to problems.
True, but we have other characters in TeamLinks which cause us
problems! :-) In particular \ in drawer names makes TeamLinks ill.
Regards,
Paul
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