| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
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Hi, unix-engineers, I have a customer, who has files with specific national characters in their names and now he complains, he has problems when (v)dumping and restoring this files. I told him, I think this characters are not supported, but he told me, in the "User's Guide", he only read that a filename can't contain "\" and is not recommended to contain shell-specific characters. I verified and he's right. Now, he wants me to provide him an official statemaent about not using specific national characters in filenames or Digital should make it work. Can anyone tell, where I can find more detailed information on supported filenames? Regards, Corina
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| 9521.1 | can you describe the problems ? | SMURF::WENDY | Wed Apr 16 1997 11:26 | 9 | |
Can you provide a bit more information about this ? For example, are
the filenames all in a specific codeset or mixed codesets ? And exactly
what sort of problem is he encountering when dumping and restoring the
files ?
wendy
I18N Tech Dir.
Unix Engineering
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| 9521.2 | no mixed codesets | MUNICH::CUZUM | Wed Apr 16 1997 12:34 | 15 | |
Hi, Wendy,
the customer has all lowercase filenames, some of them containing the
german specific characters (u, a, o with 2 dots upon). When he makes a
vdump of a fileset conaining such files, they get dumped but appear on
the tape with the special character cut out of the name. (Sorry, I
can't use this characters here, but for example a file called:tuv
(instead of u, think u with 2 dots upon) appears on the tape as tv and
can't be restored. There aren't mixed codesets.
Thanks,
Corina
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| 9521.3 | DECWET::MARTIN | Wed Apr 16 1997 16:17 | 6 | ||
Sounds like a bug in vdump/vrestore to me. I'd recommend filing a QAR/CLD/IMPT case, whichever is appropriate to elevate it for engineering to work on it. As always, "The customer is always right." :) --Ken | |||||