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Re: win95files names



On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 06:56:35AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name
> without the funny ~1 thing?
> I have tried   "mount -t msdos  ", but this truncates the name to  *~1.
> I have a few linux files that I want to be able to recognize from the
> linux partition.
> Thanks,
> antonio.
>
Win95 introduced vfat, so you should use it :-)

mount -t vfat /dev/something

beware to have it compiled into your kernel! 


Ingo

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