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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 17:07:18 -0400
From:      "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com>
To:        <current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Floppy only 8.3 filenames
Message-ID:  <004b01c21a30$cb68a360$0e00000a@briandesk>
References:  <1024778356.423.55.camel@twoflower> <200206221348.50321.phessler@theapt.org> <1024779050.423.58.camel@twoflower>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Stocker" <Jan.Stocker@t-online.de>
To: <phessler@theapt.org>
Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: Floppy only 8.3 filenames


> /dev/ad0s1              /dos            msdos   rw              0      0
>
> looks quite longfilenamed on my FAT32 slice since ages...
>
> On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 22:48, Peter Hessler wrote:
> > MS-DOS can only handle 8.3 file names.  It's by design (MS not
FreeBSD).
> >
> >
> > /snip/
> > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt
> >             ^^^^^^^^
> > /snip/
> >
> > --
> > Peter Hessler
> > <phessler@theapt.org>
> >
> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

ugh top-posting...

perhaps try forcing it with -o longnames ?

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