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Re: hebrew filenames..
- To: Tal Amir <tal(at-nospam)whatsup.co.il>
- Subject: Re: hebrew filenames..
- From: Alon Altman <alon(at-nospam)vipe.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 22:10:58 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Linux-IL <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Tal Amir wrote:
> hi list,
>
> i have a folder containing mp3, sitting in my linux box and shared to the
> rest of the lan via samba.
> this folder contains a bus foler with hebrew files (that i was foolish
> enough to name in hebrew fonts.)
>
> the situation is that linux shows the files as empty directory's (even if
> it is an mp3 file) and cannot access, rename or delete it in any way.
>
> i cannot access those files from windows or linux in any way at all.
> is there any way to restore the files, or even to delete them ?
> because when an application from windows tried to read the directory in
> question, it gets a fatal error and crushes. (how NOT ms tipical..) ;)
How did you try to access the files in linux?
How did the files get in the directory in the first place?
Can you send us (partial) output of "ls -la --show-control-chars" in the
specified directory... we need to find out the character set of these
filenames...
Alon
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