On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 11:10, Szabó Balázs wrote: > Hi Debian-users, > > I have a strange problem (at least it is strange to me): > problems occur when I try to save to floppy or put to server through FTP with > files with more than 3 letter extensions. The file appears there, but > extension chopped to 3 letters (e.g. gnumeric becomes gnu, html becomes htm) > and the file contains nothing (0 bytes) ... > > It first came using Konqueror, so I thought it's a KDE problem, but continued > when I tried to copy files to floppy from the command line. > > When giving copy command I get the answer 'File exists. Overwrite?' - which > can't be, I checked first, there were no such files. After that if I choose > yes to overwrite I get the empty file with chopped extension. Maybe the remote filesystem / floppy filesystem is fat12 (msdos). Only fat16 upwards / vfat supports more than 8character name 3 character extension filenames. HTH, Shri -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shri Shrikumar U R Byte Solutions I.T. Consultant Edinburgh, Scotland Tel: 0845 644 4745 Email: shri@urbyte.com Web: www.urbyte.com
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