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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc: patj@sierra.valleynet.com (Pat Jensen - Network Administrator),
        questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Windows 95 filespace support? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 1995 07:47:15 PST."
             <199511171547.IAA05545@phaeton.artisoft.com> 
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:29:50 PST
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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In message <199511171547.IAA05545@phaeton.artisoft.com>,   you write:
>> Out of curiousity, does FreeBSD's dosfs grok long win95 filenames?
>
>No.
>
>> If not, how hard do you think it would be to code support in?
>
>2 hours.  But then I've been hacking filesystem code on Win95 for
>months and months now.
>
>I'd prefer to wait this until after the outstanding msdosfs problems
>have been resolved.  Fix first, feature add later.
>

The current beta mtools support VFAT filesystems...

There's also an xmsdos file system for linux to look at...

You can still read/write the files, but they're in the
munged form (each "long file name" has a corresponding 8+3 name).

marty