new version of Dodo code

[Nick Briggs]

I had reported a problem with support for multiple versions of files on a Dodo file server -- it has now been fixed.

You'll need to "git pull" in your dodo repository (mine is "dodo"), and then unpack the dist.zip into your working dodo directory (mine is "dodo-xns-services"), and then for every file service, edit the root-folder.lst file to add :allowNonUniqueNames: to the front of the owner 3-part name.  So, for the default fs1-vol/root-folder.lst we'd now have:

% more vol-fs1/root-folder.lst

boss    :allowNonUniqueNames:boss:dev:hawala

motu    :allowNonUniqueNames:motu:dev:hawala

guest   :allowNonUniqueNames:guest:dev:hawala

tester  :allowNonUniqueNames:tester:dev:hawala

public  :allowNonUniqueNames:motu:dev:hawala    w!*:dev:hawala

And now you can create multiple versions of a file in those directories.

I've checked it and it works, but I'm going to ask to have the default be to allow non-unique names, and if you want to restrict it, add :requireUniqueNames: -- no real XNS file service required unique names.  The only place I ever saw that was on printers that implemented only the Filing-Subset protocol and had an unversioned file system underneath that they exposed through XNS filing.

-- Nick

[Paolo Amoroso]

I installed the new version of Dodo and copied over my existing configuration from the old files.

It seems to work well, for example with Lafite, but I'm not sure I remember how to access {FS1}. For example, opening a file browser on {FS1} yields a blank browser:

I need to type the server name as {FS1%:} to get the expected list of directories:

What's the correct syntax for file server names with Exec commands and Lisp expressions?

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[Larry Masinter]

fb {fs1::}

xns names have 3 parts (2 colons) even if the second and 3rd parts are elided

I suppose it isn't a problem, but unqualified names like {FS1} are either PUP host names OR psuedohost names.

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