Re: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?
Nope, you need Win95 for long file names. Even DOS 6.22, the last in the
stand-alone DOS versions, doesn't do long names. What you could do is get a
Win95 boot disk and reformat the DOS drive and then have the long names
visable to Linux, but Win3.1 would still see only 8.3
At 05:22 PM 3/1/99 EST, MallarJ@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 3/1/99 4:06:05 PM Central Standard Time,
lls@freedomain.org
>writes:
>
>> Does it work to define /hda3 as vfat rather than msdos? If vfat isn't in
>> your
>> kernel, you can mount it after you login. This will give you full
>filenames
>> rather than 8.3 names.
>>
>
>I can't imagine this would work. Last I checked DOS simply didn't support
>long files names. (I don't know about later versions - but the original
>request mentioned that you're still running Win 3.1 - I'd assume you don't
>have a really recent version of DOS either). Long file names are a
feature of
>Win95 and the "DOS" that Win95 provides. Simply mounting the partition as
>vfat isn't going to provide that functionality.
>
>This is a complete guess - but you might see if the Win32s extentions to Win
>3.1 will allow long file names. It's been way too long since I've seen them,
>so I can't remember one way or another.
>
>-Jay
>
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