Well... I would say I've had substantial success. Cygnus gnu win32 gzip/tar was able to extract my 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz, and all the filenames seemed to be intact in windows' long filename format. But when I booted back to Linux, and attempted to copy the files over to my current home directory, I noticed that all the filenames were the 8.3 version -- long filenames were not working on my fat32 partition. None of them are now. I *know* this used to work. Any idea why it isn't now ?
I can get my filenames intact (I think) by booting back to windows, and using the cygnus stuff to re tar & gzip the stuff I extracted from my 2.6gb file, but I would really like to get my long filename support back. BTW: The Cygnus gnu win32 thing is an implementation of the unix api under win32 (or something like that) -- basically, it'll let you compile & run unix stuff under windows 95/NT. gcc is capable of recompiling itself with this thing. And it comes with a bunch of unix utilities, and the bash shell. I'm still not used to running a bash shell in win95... oh, and you can find all of this at (of course) http://www.cygnus.com. ________________________________________________________________________ ***PGP fingerprint = D5 EB F8 E7 64 55 CF 91 C2 4F E0 4D 18 B6 7C 27*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Chaos reigns.
