| Didn't we answer that type of question a few months ago? I can't
remember, and sitting at home in my pajamas, I just going to wing it :-)
There is no communication between the Mac and LANMAN servers. A file
created by anything outside of the Mac server, would only be known to
the Mac server by whatever file name was used to store it on the
OpenVMS host system. At the minimum it would be A-Z, '_', '$', and
'-'. The Mac server would replace the '_' with spaces, and lowercase
all but the first letter of the resulting words (this behavior is
configurable via a startup control logical).
I do not know the current behavior of the LANMAN server, but at one
time it only created 8.3 DOS names for OpenVMS file names. If that is
still true, then the Mac name would be a very munged version of the
original Windows 95 long name. But I don't know what the LANMAN server
is doing these days.
Bob Harris
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| As Bob said, what the Mac sees depends on how the Lanman server stores
the file. for example on the w95 pc, I created a file called
"This_is_&test.txt" under VMS you get "THIS_IS___26TEST.TXT".
Notice the "&" is stored as its hex equivalent. On the Mac, this file
appears as "THIS IS 26TEST.TXT".
And yes the Lanman server does handle long file names now. I thought
someone had CLD'd this at one time, but I dont recall the outcome.
However Digitals official position now is that sharing files between
W95/NT and Macs is not supported/recommended. You should use an NT
server for that.
jim fillers
pathworks support
csc atlanta
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