| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. |
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| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
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I am writing an AM with will be used with DCE CDS. We are not making use of DNS. We are implementing on BSD Ultrix. We are using DCE RPC, and have a number of attributes which relate to global entities in CDS. I'm wondering if these attributes should be of type FULLNAME or LATIN1STRING. They are global and are directory names, but have the ultrix directory syntax. Because of the ultrix directory syntax, I need to be able to enter the '/'. I tried doing this with a FULLNAME in the internal field test kit of MCC 1.2, and couldn't. It seems like the 'correct' datatype for a CDS global entity would be FULLNAME. Soo... my questions are: 1. Will fullname work with the '/' character ? 2. Recommendations on naming CDS global entites in MCC. 3. If this is not known, who can I contact to find out these answers? thanks, Bonnie
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| 2020.1 | why not filename | TOOK::CALLANDER | MCC = My Constant Companion | Fri Jan 03 1992 12:00 | 7 |
why aren't you using filename if that is what it is?
as to fullname support of '/' you would have to ask the DNS folks,
hopefully some one else can answer that one.
jill
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| 2020.2 | Use Quoted Simplename in building a Fullname | TRM::KWAK | Fri Jan 03 1992 13:34 | 7 | |
'/' is not a valid character in Simplename.
However, you can us '/' in a Quoted Simplename.
For example, .world.site1."/foo/bar" is a valid Fullname.
William
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| 2020.3 | Should define a new primitive type, but... | BLUMON::SYLOR | Architect = Buzzword Generator | Mon Jan 06 1992 09:58 | 15 |
A CDS "fullname" is much more than a character string. It's really a whole new primitive data type. You'll need to for example translate RDNs into the appropriate OID and value (for example /C=US/O=DEC/ etc...). The "right" answer is to get a new primitive data type added to EMA, but since the directors (MCC and NCL) have made that hard to do, you've got a real problem... A "hack" answer is to use the data type FileSpec (that at least can encode any legal CDS name syntax), the only problem is that the translation from "external" to"internal" representation would be done in the entity, not in the director. Formally, that violates the rules of CDS (or DNS) but I don't think you have a choice there. Mark | |||||