Nope, you need Win95 for long file names. Even DOS 6.22, the last in the stand-alone DOS versions, doesn't do long names. What you could do is get a Win95 boot disk and reformat the DOS drive and then have the long names visable to Linux, but Win3.1 would still see only 8.3
At 05:22 PM 3/1/99 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 3/1/99 4:06:05 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >writes: > >> Does it work to define /hda3 as vfat rather than msdos? If vfat isn't in >> your >> kernel, you can mount it after you login. This will give you full >filenames >> rather than 8.3 names. >> > >I can't imagine this would work. Last I checked DOS simply didn't support >long files names. (I don't know about later versions - but the original >request mentioned that you're still running Win 3.1 - I'd assume you don't >have a really recent version of DOS either). Long file names are a feature of >Win95 and the "DOS" that Win95 provides. Simply mounting the partition as >vfat isn't going to provide that functionality. > >This is a complete guess - but you might see if the Win32s extentions to Win >3.1 will allow long file names. It's been way too long since I've seen them, >so I can't remember one way or another. > >-Jay > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
