Re: File names lose special characters in names when moved to Sol10

From: Joerg Schilling (js_at_cs.tu-berlin.de)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: 29 Jan 2005 13:34:05 GMT

In article <41FAFCEA.6000609@prodigy.net>, CJT <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote:
>I moved a bunch of files to a Sol10 test machine via pax, and when
>they arrived, file names containing accented characters had lost
>the accents. Have I misconfigured something?

You just did hit a miss conception from the POSIX pax definition.

Pax was not designed to make backups. It only works if the directory tree that
is archived by pax uses the same locale as the person who runs pax.

For backups better use star

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha

http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php 

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