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Re: 8 character filenames on msdos floppy



On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Eric Smith wrote:
 
| oops - now I get this:
| [eric@cherry ~] 2 $ cp Samenwerkingsovereenkomst.doc /floppy&&ls /floppy
| projec~1.dot  samenwer.doc  samenw~1.doc 
|               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| which I prefer to the ~1 type but it still aint what I want :(

Is the disk really vfat?  Does 'mount' say it is mounted as vfat?
What does windows see it as?  I wouldn't be surprised if you lost the
case of the name (neither vfat nor msdos is case-sensitive).

-D

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