[iyonix-support] Re: USB hard drive
- From: Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:01:56 +0000 (GMT)
On Fri 16 Nov, Paul Vigay wrote:
>
> In a dim and distant universe <9fbda0424f.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> muttered:
> [Snippety snip]
>
> > I don't want to talk Chris out of a sale, but there's another way if you
> > have a Windows machine networked. I have a USB drive which I attach to
> > the networked Windows laptop for backups, and the Iyo can see this as a
> > share under LanMan98. You do have to be a bit careful with the "notypes"
> > option in LanMan though.
>
> The other problem with this though, is that LanMan (or Windows - I'm not
> sure which) doesn't recognise some characters in filenames. For instance,
> when I last tried that it wouldn't back my "AcornC/C++" directory or files
> with "<" or ">" in the filenames etc.
I wonder if a workaround would be possible in LanMan98 when it is updated
to get round this type of problem.
Chris Evans
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