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Subject: Re: MSDOSfs long filename support.... 
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:14:46 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> While fumbling along with WIN95 (yuck) here at work it hit me that
> WIN95 is able to put long filenames onto a MSDOS FAT filesystem.
> 
> They way they do it is easy, and I'm thinking of putting support
> into our msdos filesystem driver.
> 
> Would this bring us closer to running of a msdos filesystem ??
> (modulo unstabilities in the msdosfs support).
> It should be possible to load the files under dos with a
> special utility (or WIN95) and then run FreeBSD off of that
> directory right??

yes, when devfs is all swingin'

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