> > You can pipe the file through "tr -d '\r'". Ignore the other message > > about mcopy. This is restrictive since it *assumes* that the file > > is on a floppy disk (or other FAT volume). > > A much bigger problem of mtools is that when copying *to* an MS-DOS > file system, it writes long filename entries to the directory. > Apparently it assumes that everyone using DOS filesystems is using > Windows '95. This is not just the default; you can't turn it off (at > least, I found no way to do so - if anyone knows how please let me > know).
It does that only when the file is not acceptable to normal FAT. So if you don't like the so called `VFAT' don't use those names, that would fail in normal FAT anyway. Still, if you aren't happy you can wrap mcopy into a script that check its arguments to be traditional 8.3 filenames. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
