On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 01:24:33AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why > > when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This > > causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files > > between linux and dos... > > Since linux assumes that an MSDOS file system is to be operatable even when > it > does not mounted by Linux, it doesn't want to intefer with MSDOS file system > too much. There for, when mounting an MSDOS file system, Linux stickes with > the MSDOS rules. > But, being aware to the limitations of an MSDOS file system, I believe that > Linux tries to make long names short in a consistent and unique way. > Perhaps the easiest way when dealing with files that lives both on an MSDOS > file system and on "linux" file system is to determine thier names in the 8.3 > format from the beginning.
Huh? The vfat file system does long filenames on Windows partitions just fine! You seem to be using an invalid domain name again btw. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty. Ltd. Developers of music education software including Auralia & Musition. 31 Elmhurst Road, Blackburn, Victoria Australia, 3130 Phone: +61 3 9894 4788 Fax: +61 3 9894 3362 USA Toll Free: 1-888-667-7839 Internet: http://www.rising.com.au/ -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
