Re: Vfat & Long file names
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 03:31:37AM -0500, Cristov Russell wrote:
> I have edited /etc/fstab and mounted my Win95 partitions as vfat.
> When I boot into Linux I get a message saying:
>
> Unable to load NLS charset cp437...
> Unable to load NLS charset ISO8859...
>
> I can view files in these partitions so I know that the partitions are
> mounted but I'm unsure what the error means.
With recent kernel versions, proper VFAT support requires that you have the
right National Language Support code/modules available; they allow Linux to
properly deal with filenames containing non-ascii characters. (By e.g.
translating from DOS codepage 850 to ISO 8859-1 ("latin 1")).
> My other question is about long file names. How does Linux handle long
> file names? When I try to view a file with spaces (i.e. My Resume.txt)
> Linux seems to treat these as seperate files. How do I correctly specify
> a valid long file name?
Put quotes around it, or use backslashes to quote, e.g.:
cat '/win/File name with spaces in it'
vim /win/My\ Documents/foo
HTH,
Ray
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