Help! There's a slash '/' in my filename.

[Steve Alter]

At last, a package that avoids this problem altogether!

I'm installing and testing the uShare software from Information
Presentation Technologies, Inc.  It provides, among other things, an
AppleShare Server daemon for SunOS systems.  I don't know if anybody
else does this (yet) but uShare prevents the '/' from getting into the
filename in the first place.

When you create a file from a Mac in a uShare AppleShare volume, any
characters that Unix might not like (slashes, control characters, bytes
with the 8th bit, etc.) are converted into some strange notation
(possibly hexadecimal digits) and prefixed with a ':'.  Since the colon
is invalid as part of a Mac filename (it's used to separate folder
names in a path and the "Save File" dialog either ignores it or turns
it into a hyphen) it's certainly available to protect the filename on
the Unix side.
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Steve Alter        <alter at ttidca.tti.com>
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