<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A much bigger problem of mtools is that when copying *to* an MS-DOS >> file system, it writes long filename entries to the directory.
> 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. If I copy a (e.g. too long) filename to a DOS partition with the normal Linux cp command, it just truncates it - which is exactly what should happen if the partition is not mounted as vfat. This also should be possible with mtools. Even if I copy the file "pietje", with mtools I still get a long filename directory entry, because it is not in uppercase. This is annoying - I don't want to have to type all filenames that should go on a DOS partition in uppercase, and truncate them by hand, and I also don't feel like creating wrapper scripts around all mtools commands. I just don't use it anymore. Gertjan. -- Gertjan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Boot Control home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bcpage.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
