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Re: DOS long filename style - why?



On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:21:12PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote:
> 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.

Mount the filesystem as vfat, not msdos.

mount -t vfat /dev/hdxx /dos

or edit /etc/fstab

AGL

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