[WinMac] Re: Choosing a WinMac server

Daniel L. Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:29:54 -0400

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
• Next message: Daniel L. Schwartz: "Re: Choosing a WinMac server"
• Previous message: John C. Welch: "Re: [WinMac] Choosing a WinMac server"
• In reply to: Roger: "Re(2): [WinMac] Choosing a WinMac server"
• Next in thread: Willy Rivet: "[WinMac] NT4 and remote access through dial up networking"

At 04:13 PM 6/2/99 -0400, "John C. Welch" <jwelch@aer.com> wrote:
>Comments inline
>
>Roger wrote:
>>
>> OK the topic is a bit old by now, but I've got some comments on the ASIP
>> SMB support. Don't know much about protocolls behind it, but ASIP wasn't
>> really as great as I thought it would be. I made the following exercise.
>>
>> Got myself three files.
>> 1. test.doc
>> 2. test åäö.doc (containing swedish characters and a space)
>
>This is almost a guaranteed fail. umlauts and the rest are all using the
>upper ASCII set, and this not only can change RADICALLY between
>Operating systems, but between fonts as well. Font issues are a problem
>across platform, and this is a classroom example.

        I respectfully (but only partially) disagree: I believe it's more of a
code page issue than a platform issue, as even *most* upper-level
characters (i.e. characters with ASCII values above 127) still match up.

        With the code page issue comes different language support, i.e. if one has
a U.S. English version of the underlying OS' (MacOS & windoze 95 in this
case), then all should pretty well line up. [I'll have to fire up
Fontographer to verify this...] Where it can get squirrely is when one is
using a non-English version of the OS; or worse yet mixing languages. THIS
is the jumping-off point where I started asking Roger
<mailto:tornberg@geo.su.se> questions about language versions he is using.

        In any case, it's worth noting that NT's Services for Mac (SFM) gracefully
handles Mac files & folders with illegal DOS characters, such as /?\|*.

        [Balance cut]

        Cheers!
        Dan

 -----------------------------------------------------------------

        <mailto:expresso@snip.net>
         
        ALTERNATE: <mailto:expresso@workmail.com>

                Webmaster for <http://www.Faulknerstudios.com>,
                                        <http://www.BrakeAndGo.com>

-> NEW! Sign up for the Mac-NT Mailing list at:
 <http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/Mac-NT>

        This message is ©Copyright 1999 by Daniel L. Schwartz, and
may not be reproduced except in its entirety.

 -----------------------------------------------------------------

* Windows-MacOS Cooperation List *

• Next message: Daniel L. Schwartz: "Re: Choosing a WinMac server"
• Previous message: John C. Welch: "Re: [WinMac] Choosing a WinMac server"
• In reply to: Roger: "Re(2): [WinMac] Choosing a WinMac server"
• Next in thread: Willy Rivet: "[WinMac] NT4 and remote access through dial up networking"

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b2 on Wed Jun 02 1999 - 13:47:11 PDT