UnixWare filename restrictions

Files that you create or rename on volumes that use the NFS name space (that is, volumes in either NetWare or UNIX modes) must observe the standard UnixWare filename conventions:

• They must consist of a maximum of 255 characters.

• They cannot contain a null character or a slash (/).

• They differentiate between lowercase and uppercase letters (that is, abc.doc, ABC.doc, and ABC.DOC refer to different files).

Filename translation on the NetWare side

With the NFS name space loaded on a volume, UnixWare filenames are translated to DOS filenames and it is the DOS filenames that will be seen by any client that does not use the NFS name space.

So, if you log into the NetWare server from a client that uses only the DOS name space, your files may appear to have different names than the ones you see from UnixWare. (From UnixWare, your files will always have the names you give them.)

The name translations done on the DOS side are as follows:

• Any lowercase characters are converted to uppercase.

• Any DOS special characters in the filename are dropped (see ``DOS mode filename restrictions'').

• If the UnixWare filename is longer than 8 characters, it is truncated to 8 characters. If there are one or more periods in the filename, then up to 8 characters are accepted up to the first period and up to 3 are accepted after the period; any remaining characters are dropped.

• If a translated name is the same as the name of a file that is already on the NetWare volume, successive digits are added to the translated filename until a unique filename is formed.

  If the addition of digits to the filename causes it to reach 8 characters (or if it is already 8 characters long), then characters are grabbed from the end of the filename and replaced with successive digits until a unique filename is found.

• If a UnixWare filename consists of only DOS special characters, its name is translated to STRANGE. A second such filename is translated to STRANGE1, and so on, until a unique filename is found.