This really helps and further mounts without the option will mount the
floppy with longnames, but i am sure i never used such an option. 

Thanx
        Jan

On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 23:07, Brian K. White wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Stocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 4:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Floppy only 8.3 filenames
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> 
> > /dev/ad0s1              /dos            msdos   rw              0      0
> >
> > looks quite longfilenamed on my FAT32 slice since ages...
> >
> > On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 22:48, Peter Hessler wrote:
> > > MS-DOS can only handle 8.3 file names.  It's by design (MS not
> FreeBSD).
> > >
> > >
> > > /snip/
> > > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
> > >             ^^^^^^^^
> > > /snip/
> > >
> > > --
> > > Peter Hessler
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> ugh top-posting...
> 
> perhaps try forcing it with -o longnames ?
> 
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