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Re: [Info-mtools] something like mkmanifest for long names?
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Alain Knaff |
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Re: [Info-mtools] something like mkmanifest for long names? |
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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:56:30 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) |
Unfortunately, mkmanifest is a a remainder of a time when neither Windows
nor mtools supported any long file names, and thus only attempts to map
every filename to a short 8+3 name.
Normally mkmanifest wouldn't be needed any more for long file names ...
except for special characters, as you noticed.
No replacement exists yet, but as the algorithm is rather simple (replace
all dodgy characters with _), it should be easy to write a simple script.
Sorry,
Alain