16.1 Naming Conventions

NetWare currently supports five name spaces, identified by constant names and associated numeric values:

0

NW_NS_DOS

DOS names can have up to eight upper-case characters followed by a period and up to three more upper-case characters.

1

NW_NS_MAC

Macintosh names can be up to 32 characters long including all upper and lower case printable characters, with the exception of the colon.

2

NW_NS_NFS

NFS names can be up to 256 mixed-case characters long.

3

NW_NS_FTAM

FTAM names can be up to 256 lower-case characters long.

4

NW_NS_LONG

LONG names can be up to 255 mixed-case characters long. LONG names can be used with OS/2 and any 32-bit Windows system.

DOS names remain the same in a LONG environment. NetWare uses a shortening algorithm to convert long names for use in a DOS environment. To avoid ambiguous names, this algorithm may designate a DOS file name that doesn’t match the first eight characters of the long name.