[WinMac] RE: What do do about Illegal characters in filenames

Zingery, Amy M(ZINGERY[at]uthscsa.edu)
Fri, 21 May 1999 14:09:02 -0500

Our group uses NameCleaner to deal with the illegal character problems.
The following are the URLs to download a demo that cleans 20 files at a
time.
We use the full version to clean 2000+ files at a time that are moved from
Macs to PCs running WinNT.
AZ

[Amy refers people to a product called NameCleaner and quotes an
email from the developer:]

The main new feature is the addition of dozens of mappings between PC
Extensions and Mac file types, bringing the total to over 100. The new
version will automatically prompt you to add these to your current option
sets when you run it for the first time.

Also, a fix has been made to a problem with Macintosh to MS-DOS cleaning.

Lastly, a special version of NameCleaner is now available with scheduling
which repeatedly cleans files at a specified time interval. Please see the
help for more details and contact us if you are interested.

Download the new version at : http://www.sigsoftware.com/namecleaner/

-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Lee [mailto:lee@darryl.com]
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 1:51 PM
To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
Subject: Re: [WinMac] Illegal characters in filenames

[quoted message deleted]

When the Mac saves the file on the NT server, i believe the / gets
saved as a block (not in the character set). But it's still
accessible.

Maybe NT can deal with bad characters better than 95? i wouldn't
doubt it.

-- 
Darryl Lee <lee@darryl.com> | Geek? Who me? <http://www.darryl.com>


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