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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:20:15 +0100
From:      peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten)
To:        brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Cc:        wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte), FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers list)
Subject:   Re: msdosfs creates illegal dir names?
Message-ID:  <199701140820.JAA11783@orac.hw.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199701140119.BAA11586@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Jan 14, 1997 01:19:07 %2B0000
References:  <199701132233.XAA03055@yedi.iaf.nl> <199701140119.BAA11586@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

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Brian Somers shared with us:
> 
> Another "interesting" thing about the existing msdosfs:  Share one of these 
> partitions via samba, and then "copy-and-paste" a directory using win95.  You 
> end up with a rather messy directory that lacks '.' & '..' !

Is there any chance that long (W95) filenames will be supported in a
future version of msdosfs? Since I can't get my Teles ISDN-card to
work with FreeBSD and PPP (yet), I use W95 to ftp large archives. It's
a bit of a drag to have to zip them in W95 and unzip them in FreeBSD.

- Peter
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Peter Korsten | peter@hw.nl | http://www.hw.nl/~peter/
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  'Never EVER mess with a jumper you don't know about, even if it's
  labeled "sex and free beer".' -Dave Haynie, Amiga developer



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