Re: [Duplicity-talk] Long filenames incomapible with NTFS

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:48:25AM +0200, Dennis Schulz wrote:
> I think the ":" are the problem. I would use the MySQL-Timestamp-Format 
> in such a situation.
> That means: 20070620113923+0200
> 
> Its human readable and contains no nasty special characters.

Hmmm, wasn't "+" a special character in DOS/Windows filesystems, too?
":" may also make problems on (old) Macs.

> Perhaps you can change this. What do you duplicity-users mean?

Although it's human readable it's much more effort to parse it in the
brain. I definitely prefer the current format, but then again, it's
just because it a little bit easier to read.

                Regards, Axel
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