Re: Formatting umsdos partitions
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996 gbh@erols.com wrote:
> I have Debian packages on a Win95 formatted disk
> and need to transfer them to a Linux formatted
> disk. These packages have the long filenames, they
> were not downloaded from the msdos directory. However
> when I try to access the files directly from Linux,
> it converts the files to the 8.3 dos convention
> thus losing the long filenames.
How did you mount your Win95 partition? That is, what did you use for the
-t parameter?
Luck,
Dwarf
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