On 17 Jan 2002, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > >>>>> "Tzafrir" == Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tzafrir> On 17 Jan 2002, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> I have a machine with Windows 95 and Linux installed on it. I > >> have the W95 (FAT) partitions mounted under linux. I would like > >> to back up the W95 partitions using tar under Linux. Seems to > >> be that I once had a problem backing up W95 files which have > >> Hebrew names. I don't have the machine in front of me right > >> now, so I can't supply all the details. > >> > >> In the meantime, has anyone tried this ? > > Tzafrir> Try mounting it with the codepage iso8859-8 (or > Tzafrir> windows1255 or cp1255) and then tar. I believe that tar > Tzafrir> saves 8bit file names, and IIRC I tried opening such a > Tzafrir> tarball with winzip on hebrew win98 and it worked fine. > > > Great - I'll try that ! I didn't know there was such an option for > mount.
See mount (8) . This is an option for vfat. It is probably listed under vfat, msdos or whatever. > > How do I know which of the three codepages you mentioned to > use ? > There is not much practical difference beween them (basically windows CP1255 includes many extra characters, including Nikud, but I doubt if any of them will appear in a file name). > How do I determine which code pages are available ? > > How do I install additional codepages ? It's a kernel compile-time option. I think most distros compile them all as modules. $ ls /lib/modules/2.4.8-26mdk/kernel/fs/nls/ nls_big5.o.gz nls_cp861.o.gz nls_cp950.o.gz nls_iso8859-5.o.gz nls_cp1251.o.gz nls_cp862.o.gz nls_euc-jp.o.gz nls_iso8859-6.o.gz nls_cp1255.o.gz nls_cp863.o.gz nls_euc-kr.o.gz nls_iso8859-7.o.gz nls_cp437.o.gz nls_cp864.o.gz nls_gb2312.o.gz nls_iso8859-8.o.gz nls_cp737.o.gz nls_cp865.o.gz nls_iso8859-13.o.gz nls_iso8859-9.o.gz nls_cp775.o.gz nls_cp866.o.gz nls_iso8859-14.o.gz nls_koi8-r.o.gz nls_cp850.o.gz nls_cp869.o.gz nls_iso8859-15.o.gz nls_koi8-ru.o.gz nls_cp852.o.gz nls_cp874.o.gz nls_iso8859-1.o.gz nls_koi8-u.o.gz nls_cp855.o.gz nls_cp932.o.gz nls_iso8859-2.o.gz nls_sjis.o.gz nls_cp857.o.gz nls_cp936.o.gz nls_iso8859-3.o.gz nls_tis-620.o.gz nls_cp860.o.gz nls_cp949.o.gz nls_iso8859-4.o.gz nls_utf8.o.gz $ ls /lib/modules/2.2.19-19.1mdk/fs/ autofs.o.gz nls_cp437.o.gz nls_cp874.o.gz nls_iso8859-9.o.gz binfmt_aout.o.gz nls_cp737.o.gz nls_cp932.o.gz nls_koi8-r.o.gz binfmt_java.o.gz nls_cp775.o.gz nls_cp936.o.gz nls_koi8-ru.o.gz binfmt_misc.o.gz nls_cp850.o.gz nls_cp949.o.gz ntfs.o.gz coda.o.gz nls_cp852.o.gz nls_cp950.o.gz reiserfs.o.gz efs.o.gz nls_cp855.o.gz nls_iso8859-14.o.gz romfs.o.gz fat.o.gz nls_cp857.o.gz nls_iso8859-15.o.gz smbfs.o.gz hfs.o.gz nls_cp860.o.gz nls_iso8859-1.o.gz supermount.o.gz hpfs.o.gz nls_cp861.o.gz nls_iso8859-2.o.gz sysv.o.gz lockd.o.gz nls_cp862.o.gz nls_iso8859-3.o.gz udf.o.gz minix.o.gz nls_cp863.o.gz nls_iso8859-4.o.gz ufs.o.gz msdos.o.gz nls_cp864.o.gz nls_iso8859-5.o.gz vfat.o.gz ncpfs.o.gz nls_cp865.o.gz nls_iso8859-6.o.gz nfsd.o.gz nls_cp866.o.gz nls_iso8859-7.o.gz nfs.o.gz nls_cp869.o.gz nls_iso8859-8.o.gz 2.4 includes cp1255 as well. 2.2 only includes iso8859-8. -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
