Am 09.07.20 um 21:21 schrieb Debra S Baddorf:

> Oh, yeah, you are inside of and doing an “amrecover”.  I may have read too 
> fast & missed that.
> I’ve found only a very minimal “cd”  inside there.  I can’t even “cd”  more 
> than one level at a time.
> 
> If your outside-most level is a mac computer,  you might be able to type      
>  
>      cd  R
> and then hold down “u”  to choose the one with the umlaut.
> And then type the whole rest of the directory   (I think I have to type the 
> whole thing, in amrecover).
> 
> PC might have a similar way to actually type an umlauted “u”;  dunno.

No mac here, linux and ssh session to the amanda server.

> AND  I’m not sure if this would work, and be correctly seen on the  ssh’d 
> node or wherever
> amrecover is actually running.
> 
> I suspect  I would resort to 
> (a)  telling the user to change that name!!!

Yeah, sure ;-) They already did that in some places but not everywhere.
Hard to tell ~50 users to not use german umlauts on modern systems.

And let's be honest: that shouldn't be an issue anymore on 2020 server
systems. UTF8 etc ...

But yes: reality shows these issues again and again, many software still
is very "anglo-centric".

> and meanwhile
> (b)  restoring the directory ABOVE  the umlaut  so you get a whole lot of 
> extra files, but
> maybe get the correct one too.
> 
> Or perhaps
> (c)  restore  R*     since that does work, whereas  “cd R*”  doesn’t.

Tried some stuff now, to me it looks something might be broken with the
debian package(s).

>From my days of compiling amanda on gentoo I remember having to include
/ link to "readline" or so, maybe the debian package(s) are missing
something here?

Could someone cross-test these things on their systems?

While I write that, I still have gentoo-based amanda servers somewhere,
I will check ...

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