[vdr] Re: SAMBA incompatibilities with VFAT=1 directory names

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Simon Dean wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org] On Behalf
> Of
> > Sergei Haller
> > Sent: 21 April 2002 13:31
> > To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> > Subject: [vdr] Re: SAMBA incompatibilities with VFAT=1 directory names
> >
> > On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Simon Dean (SD) wrote:
> >
> > SD> Wouldn't it be easier to just remove the full stops/periods from
> the
> > SD> ends of directory names?  It would be easier for all samba users
> if
> > the
> > SD> VFAT directory format worked with the default samba settings.
> > SD>
> > SD> Windows 2000/Xp won't even let you create directories with full
> > SD> stops/periods at the ends, not from Explorer and not from a
> command
> > SD> prompt.
> >
> > There are much more incompatibilities between Windows-like file names
> and
> > unix-like file names. e.g. on a unix file system you can create two
> files
> > named like "File" and "FiLe" -- they are two different files. in
> Windows
> > you can not create this two files an the same directory, although
> windows
> > file systems create Files case sensitively.
> >
> > VDR can not handle _all_ such incompatibilities.  That's what samba is
> > for. Especially if there is a special configuration parameter in
> smb.conf
> >
> > just my 2 cents
> >
> > c ya
> >         Sergei
> 
> Yeah but for me having a period at the end of a directory name is VERY
> common.  All most all of the Episode descriptions of the programs I
> record end in a period.  It would surely not be a big fix to remove them
> or even append them with an underscore.
> 
> How likely is it that you'll get a conflict of letter case?  You would
> have to record the same program twice with different cases in the title,
> which would be your own fault and not that of VDR, or you would have to
> have to episodes with identical names apart from the case.
> 
> If we slowly progress through the problems that Windows file and network
> systems cause then we can remove some of the hurdles to Linux newbies
> making use of VDR.  VDR is a great product and it deserves as much
> exposure amongst Linux newbies as it does amongst Linux power users.
> 
> Please, please include a fix for this Klaus,
> 
> Simon

Ok, please choose which one:

1. simply stripping any '.' character(s) at the end of a directory name, or

2. encoding '.' at the end of a directory name into '#2E'

Klaus
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