On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, André Bell wrote: > >How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem supports names up to 256 > >characters. Are you sure you're not first putting the files on a plain > >DOS filesystem that lacks support for long names? > > Positive. I'm running win95 and used xcopy /s to copy the files to the > floppy. I can view the files from dos and windows and the long file names > are there. When I put the floppy into my debian system debian only sees the > 8.3 filename (example: filena~1.htm). When I cp the files, 'what I see is > what I get'. > > So I took advise and zipped the files with winzip and then downloaded the > non-free unzip utility so I can unzip the files to my /var/www/oneclick > area. I'm installing the unzip deb now so hopefully that resolves the long > filename issue for now. > > >cp -r copies entire directory trees. It's in the man page. > > Yes, I read that and tried it as well as -R. Neither coppied all the > subdirectories from floppy to the harddrive. The root files copied but not > the subdirectories. I'll try again. > > Syntax I used while in /floppy was 'cp -r *.* /var/www/oneclick' > I also tried it with -R
Umm... U can't use *.* (that just DOS crap). Just use * That's y he didnt take all the subdirs because no dir matched *.* Also try the commans "mdir", "mcopy" and "mdel". Very use full with floppies if u need more "DOS-look-alike" commmands ;-). > > Maybe I'm using the wrong syntax here(?) > > Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
