Dunno if it will help but Writing to a fresh floppy (W98) foo.txt bar.foobar dir > dir.txt
The (possibly) long filename take up an extra directory slot and is in the proper case. Floppy should be FAT12 (very limited number of clusters) but this has nothing to do with long file names. The extension is in mucking with directory entries which are invisible to DOS. Sector 19 Af.o.o.. .t. 4294967295 15-31-07 7:63 pm 0 R/O Sys Hid Vol FOO TXT 36 6-21-05 5:10 am 2 Arc Ab.a.r.. .f. 4294967295 0-00-80 12:03 am 0 R/O Sys Hid Vol BAR~1 FOO 52 6-21-05 5:11 am 3 Arc Ad.i.r.. .t. 4294967295 15-31-07 7:63 pm 0 R/O Sys Hid Vol DIR TXT 305 6-21-05 5:11 am 4 Arc Unused directory entry Unused directory entry Sector 19 00000000: 41 66 00 6F 00 6F 00 2E - 00 74 00 0F 00 65 78 00 Af.o.o...t.$.ex. 00000010: 74 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF - FF FF 00 00 FF FF FF FF t...______..____ 00000020: 46 4F 4F 20 20 20 20 20 - 54 58 54 20 00 B4 2F 29 FOO TXT .&/) 00000030: D5 32 D5 32 00 00 41 29 - D5 32 02 00 24 00 00 00 +2+2..A)+2.$... 00000040: 41 62 00 61 00 72 00 2E - 00 66 00 0F 00 52 6F 00 Ab.a.r...f.$.Ro. 00000050: 6F 00 62 00 61 00 72 00 - 00 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF o.b.a.r.....____ 00000060: 42 41 52 7E 31 20 20 20 - 46 4F 4F 20 00 8B 51 29 BAR~1 FOO .oQ) 00000070: D5 32 D5 32 00 00 64 29 - D5 32 03 00 34 00 00 00 +2+2..d)+2.4... 00000080: 41 64 00 69 00 72 00 2E - 00 74 00 0F 00 DB 78 00 Ad.i.r...t.$._x. 00000090: 74 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF - FF FF 00 00 FF FF FF FF t...______..____ 000000A0: 44 49 52 20 20 20 20 20 - 54 58 54 20 00 0E 71 29 DIR TXT .q) 000000B0: D5 32 D5 32 00 00 72 29 - D5 32 04 00 31 01 00 00 +2+2..r)+2.1.. 000000C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 000000D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 000000E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Juan J. Martmnez Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 4:54 AM To: misc Subject: Re: mcopy -s foo a: El mar, 21-06-2005 a las 11:39 +0200, Juan J. Martmnez escribis: >[..] > May be is related to FAT16 and the extension for long filenames. Well, now I don't know if floppies have FAT16 or FAT12. Anyway I think the problem is related to FAT (no bits :D) and long filename support. regards, Juanjo