DOS long filename style - why?

[Ken Weingold <hazmat@hellrot.org>]

Why are the filenames that I access on a mounted DOS partition
shortened like you would see from within DOS?  I thought it was only
something DOS would display since it was incapable of seeing more than
8.3.

Thanks.


-Ken

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