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I found a problem within my home setup with non-ASCII file/directory names. It may be just a config item for Samba, but Windoze also fails.=20 Situation: A: low power Linux server (mandrake 9.1, samba 2.2.8a-13mdk) containing directory tree where some of the subdirs and files have Chinese (simplified) names. My wife copied them there from her XP notebook, which is a chinese-i-fied Fujitsu,

Heya all, I don''t think I''ve been paying attention. When a Windows API function fails, I could have been doing this: raise SystemCallError(GetLastError()) Instead of this: # Where ''Error'' is nested under the current class. raise Error, get_last_error I''m not sure how big of a deal this is in practice, however, or if it''s even preferred for

Hi all, I''ve been prototyping a Windows-only Dir class for Ruby. Below is what I''ve got so far. The class methods were easy, except for Dir.glob. The code in dir.c is just nasty, and I can''t help but think that it could be heavily refactored. I did come across this link: http://www.codeproject.com/file/fileglob.asp But I haven''t investigated it yet. Anyone

Hi! I'm trying to install the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (which I have got with the book with the same name). I'm running: the latest wine release (20020228) Redhat 7.2 gcc 2.96-98 fake windows dir (altough I have tried it with a win98 install a month ago) The installer is an installshild with win16 libs. When I run it, it puts up a message box, that the install files

I am using a Samba server not only for file sharing but also as a location for backup copies of Windows based files. I have tried using xcopy and a product call InSync from Dillobits software and I think both are running into the same problem. The problem is that these tools do not think that the time stamp on the file stored on Samba is the same as the time stamp stored on Window (in my