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  • Treatment of special chars in filenames

    Hi!

    In my Linux installation there are some files whose names contain characters which are not allowed in a MS Windows environment.
    For example: /etc/zypp/repos.d/KDE:KDE4:STABLEesktop.repo

    When I try to copy such a file via SFTP to my windows machine it fails (of course):
    09.05.2008 15:03:18 Unable to copy KDE:KDE4:STABLEesktop.repo: Cannot create file "d:\Temp\etc\zypp\repos.d\KDE:KDE4:STABLEesktop.repo". Der Vorgang wurde erfolgreich beendet
    09.05.2008 15:03:18 Failed to copy 1 items. Completed in 0,20 seconds.

    And once more WinSCP is the more experienced software which offers a transfer option to replace such characters with a coded value like this: KDE%3AKDE4%3ASTABLE%3ADesktop.repo
    (see screenshot)

    BC3 should offer such a conversion too, but only when the file creation process has actually failed. So it would still be possible to do Linux <--> Linux transfers.

    Bye
    Christoph

  • #2
    Are you suggesting that BC should try to line them up after the fact as well, or just rename and copy them?
    Zoë P Scooter Software

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