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From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net>
To: "Jason Corcoran" <jason@corcoran.tc>
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Subject: RE: FREEBSD AND DOS NAMING CONVENTIONS.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:10:45 -0500
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Mornin' Jason...

	Umm, I think that you'd need to mount the Zip drive as vfat type, not
msdos type.  Just like MS-DOS itself, the msdos type evidently
restricts you to 8.3 naming.

	Just a logical shot in the dark, since I'm not familiar with either
partition type under FreeBSD.

--- Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of
> Jason Corcoran
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 6:10 AM
> To: BSDQ
> Subject: FREEBSD AND DOS NAMING CONVENTIONS.
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I installed FreeBSD about two weeks ago for the In true
> testing manner I messed
> it up and had to do a reinstall.
>
> It all went fine, I recompiled my kernel with sound and
> device vpo for my
> external 100MB Zip drive, The problem is after the
> reinstall the naming of the
> files on the zip disks are different. They seem to be like
> old DOS 6.2 versions
> of long names for Win 9X. I.E. thisisatestfile.txt now
> reads like thisis~1.txt
> I have mounted the zip drive as
>
> /dev/wda01s /zip  type msdos
>
> Is there something I'm missing out on ?
>


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