Re: How retain Windows long file names?
André,
In Unix beware of the dot. The "cp -r *.*" will only copy directories
that contain a . in the name. Use "cp -r * /dest" for best results. Also
read the emails about mounting with vfat to get your long names.
mk
André Bell wrote:
>
> >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(?)
>
> Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it.
>
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