Debian bug report logs - #1285 bad filenames in debain/ms-dos tree Package: ftp.debian.org ; Reported by: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell); Done: imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-done: From debian.org!imurdock Thu Oct 12 06:10:03 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t3NOc-000G5kC; Thu, 12 Oct 95 06:10 PDT Received: from imagine.imaginit.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA10220 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-done-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 12 Oct 1995 06:09:39 -0700 Received: by imagine.imaginit.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 12 Oct 95 08:13 EST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 08:13 EST From: imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) To: debian-bugs-done@pixar.com Subject: Bug#1285: This program at the FTP archive has been fixed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Notification sent to mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) : Bug acknowledged by developer. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply sent to imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) : You have taken responsibility. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From mdd.comm.mot.com!mitchell Sat Aug 26 13:54:31 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0smSFL-000C1XC; Sat, 26 Aug 95 13:54 PDT Received: from motgate.mot.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA16120 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Sat, 26 Aug 1995 13:54:21 -0700 Received: from pobox.mot.com (pobox.mot.com [129.188.137.100]) by motgate.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.7) with ESMTP id PAA13803 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 15:54:29 -0500 Received: from mdd.comm.mot.com (mdisea.mdd.comm.mot.com [138.242.64.201]) by pobox.mot.com (8.6.11/8.6.10/MOT-3.8) with SMTP id PAA14633 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 1995 15:54:28 -0500 Received: from bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com by mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10890; Sat, 26 Aug 95 13:54:26 PDT Received: by bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01508; Sat, 26 Aug 95 13:54:20 PDT Date: Sat, 26 Aug 95 13:54:20 PDT From: mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) Message-Id: <9508262054.AA01508@bb29c.mdd.comm.mot.com> To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Subject: bad filenames in debain/ms-dos tree PACKAGE: ftp.debian.org Some filenames in the ms-dos tree cause problems if pc-nfs is used under MSDOS to copy the files using these names from an nfs-mounted unix filesystem to a local MSDOS filesystem. devel/tclX.deb gives a file named tclx~~ni.deb devel/xxgdbR6.deb gives a file named xxgdb~oi.deb graphics/tgifR6.deb gives a file named tgifr~qi.deb the electronics/ directory appears as elect~mi I've used several methods of moving files between MSDOS and unix, and I've not yet had problems if the filenames followed these rules: 1. No more than 8 chars in names, nor 3 chars in extensions. 2. No chars other than lower-case alpha, numeric, '-', '_'. I suggest that we constrain our ms-dos tree directory and file names to follow these conventions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell) : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1285 ; Package ftp.debian.org . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov