On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? 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
You need to mount the floppy disk with filesystem type vfat, instead of filesystem type msdos. And Windows, of course, needs to write the long filenames to the disk. It doesn't always with floppy. > Maybe there's some other way to achieve the same results besides the > 'cp' command if cp does not support long file names and if it can't > copy entire subdirectories(?). You can put the files in an archive with WinZip and unpack them on Linux with 'unzip'. Saves space that way too. Winzip can make tar files, I think, also.
