On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 10:48:54AM -0700, André Bell wrote: > When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine > with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long > file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files between systems?
Are you mounting the media as `-t msdos' or `-t vfat'? The long file names should be retained in the latter case, but definately won't in the former. > Also, is there an equivalent command to copy the files to linux including > full paths? The above mentioned diskette has around 500 cgi and html files > in 50 subdirectories and I'd like to be able to copy them to linux within > their respective paths without having to manually enter all 50 > subdirectories and manually copy the files over, one subdirectory at a time. Do a `man cp', and look for the `-r' option.
