mtools

[Gertjan Klein <gklein@xs4all.nl>]

Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

 > You can pipe the file through "tr -d '\r'". Ignore the other message
 > about mcopy. This is restrictive since it *assumes* that the file
 > is on a floppy disk (or other FAT volume).

  A much bigger problem of mtools is that when copying *to* an MS-DOS
file system, it writes long filename entries to the directory.
Apparently it assumes that everyone using DOS filesystems is using
Windows '95.  This is not just the default; you can't turn it off (at
least, I found no way to do so - if anyone knows how please let me
know).

  Gertjan.

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Gertjan Klein <gklein@xs4all.nl>
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