You are right. The original short name files will be converted to capital
letters.  Thanks,

-Zhihui

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Nov 05), Zhihui Zhang said:
> > I have two FAT floppy that I used to transfer files between FreeBSD
> > and Windows. One can show longer file names, the one cannot. What
> > format command (on FreeBSD or Windows) does this trick (i.e. choose
> > FAT32)?  I want to reformat the floppy that does not show longer than
> > eight names.  Thanks.
> 
> If a floppy has only short names, mount_msdos assumes it's a DOS floppy
> and will not generate long names when you create files on it.  You can
> force it by mounting the floppy with the -l option, or you can put a
> long filename on the floppy with a Windows machine, which should cause
> BSD to use long filenames the next that floppy is mounted.  You don't
> need to reformat.
> 
> -- 
>       Dan Nelson
>       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 


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