[Mailman-Developers] Re: i18n support for Archiver

[Norbert Bollow]

Bob Puff <bob@nleaudio.com> wrote:

> A few months ago I went through this with a customer who wanted a
> copy of the archives on CDROM from their list.  The extended
> filenames work fine under Windows, but not under the MacOS.  They
> have a different format for their extended filenames.  The only
> common denominator I found was the 8.3 dos filenames.

Ouch!

Do you know whether 11-character directory names (which do not
contain any dots) will work portably?

Greetings, Norbert.

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