Re: DOS long filename style - why?
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000, Adam Langley wrote:
> 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
sdxx :) Thanks. I will try that. I did mount as msdos.
-Ken
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