RE: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows

[Törrönen, Paul-Erik]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Escoto [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 2003-03-13 09:29
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Still thinking about windows 

> The case sensitivity and no :'s in files should be covered by the
> --windows-mode option.  The 255 limit is really disappointing.  Even
> if this is a significant limitation I have no plans to "fix" this on
> the rdiff-backup end (via a lot of chdir()ing I suppose).

I at least am not dissapointed by this, it gives me a good reason
for using Linux instead :-)

Also I would not myself even think of 'fixing' problems that are
caused by the underlying platform (may it be Cygwin or Windows).
A note in the documentation should suffice.

Finally to note that a partial reason for exceeding the 255-limit
was that the encoding of special characters added to the length.
But in my case there were also native filenames that had more
than the maximum chars.

> application/pgp-signature part.  Hmm, but the mailing list seems to
> add another layer, but that structure should still be in there.

Well this message came through a ok.

Perhaps I could get our company to switch our mailserver too ;-)

Poltsi

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