Re: How retain Windows long file names?
>How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem supports names up to 256
>characters. Are you sure you're not first putting the files on a plain
>DOS filesystem that lacks support for long names?
Positive. I'm running win95 and used xcopy /s to copy the files to the
floppy. I can view the files from dos and windows and the long file names
are there. When I put the floppy into my debian system debian only sees the
8.3 filename (example: filena~1.htm). When I cp the files, 'what I see is
what I get'.
So I took advise and zipped the files with winzip and then downloaded the
non-free unzip utility so I can unzip the files to my /var/www/oneclick
area. I'm installing the unzip deb now so hopefully that resolves the long
filename issue for now.
>cp -r copies entire directory trees. It's in the man page.
Yes, I read that and tried it as well as -R. Neither coppied all the
subdirectories from floppy to the harddrive. The root files copied but not
the subdirectories. I'll try again.
Syntax I used while in /floppy was 'cp -r *.* /var/www/oneclick'
I also tried it with -R
Maybe I'm using the wrong syntax here(?)
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