> Hoo boy, did I step in it this time.
>
> I gotta find a Novell Netware consultant in the San Francisco area
> A.S.A.P. Anybody got recommendations?
>
> Or, maybe somebody on the list knows the answer.
>
> We just found that Novell Netware 5 is squirrely with file names with
> high ANSI characters. We have a lot of Spanish audio files with accented
> characters in the name--rode�.mov, for example.
>
> Netware, by default, doesn't allow these characters in file names. It's
> a legacy thing, going back to the DOS and ASCII days.
>
> According to the information I have, you have to define allowable file
> name characters at install time. Is there any way to change that after
> installation? I don't think network admins are going to want to
> reinstall Netware for our product.
>
> Help!
Don't know about the Novell stuff, but I've run into filename parsing
problems before with x-plat stuff. The solution was to do a search and
replace in the file names for the "bad" chars, and replace them with "tags".
Then, in the methods that needed paths, there would be a quick conversion of
the file name "asked" for... as in, if you have a menu item that calls
mGetFile("espa�ol.swa"), mGetFile would first turn "espa�ol.swa" into
"espa_n1_ol.swa", then go hunting the file.
A bit of a pain (this was for audio file linked to a spanish dictionary,
where the file name matched the word clicked on by the user), but really not
that much work if you use a batch "renaming" utility on the files... now I
can't remember which one I used. I seem to remember it taking an hour or so
with a 3000 word dictionary. The parsing code in the pathnaming method was a
negligible hit, as there aren't that many upper ansi chars in a given word.
Anyway, it's a workaround if you can't get the Novell thing together.
Cordially ;),
Kurt
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