From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 7 12:46:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAAC814CFB for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 12:46:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: from tundra.winternet.com (nrahlstr@tundra.winternet.com [198.174.169.11]) by icicle.winternet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16702; Fri, 7 May 1999 14:46:03 -0500 (CDT) SMTP "HELO" (ESMTP) greeting from tundra.winternet.com But _really_ from :: nrahlstr@tundra.winternet.com [198.174.169.11] SMTP "MAIL From" = nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com (Nathan Ahlstrom) SMTP "RCPT To" = Received: (from nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) id OAA11089; Fri, 7 May 1999 14:46:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990507144601.A11049@winternet.com> Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:46:01 -0500 From: Nathan Ahlstrom To: Chuck , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Windows98 extended file names References: <199905071942.PAA10038@capecod.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199905071942.PAA10038@capecod.net>; from Chuck on Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:42:27PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck wrote: > Are long filenames in Windows 98 file systems supported? Yes the msdosfs has been updated to support both the FAT32 (win98 and later versions of 95) and normal FAT (win95 and earlier) filesystems. > Does Windows 98 use MSDOSFS in some arcane manner, or, does > FreeBSD support whatever FS Windows 98 uses? Yes, but you will need to upgrade to a newer release than 2.2.1. 2.2.8 or 3.1 will have what you are looking for. Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ nrahlstr@winternet.com PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message