From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 22 19:49:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0FF37BA18 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:49:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA85766; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:46:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D993AB.7B7051DC@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:46:51 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-HEAD-0320 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: jack , current Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2 References: <200003222315.QAA34624@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message jack writes: > : Today Warner Losh wrote: > : > : > boot.flp288 > : > : The M$ weenies would probably choke on that since they do > : filenames other than 8.3 with smoke and mirrors. > > 8.3 is so archaic these days we shouldn't be bothered with them. It > hasn't been a real restriction since the 3.1 days. Win95, released 5 > years ago, fixed this. But win95 didn't really fix it, it just covered it up. Filenames in Win9x are still 8.3, but the "OS" provides a translation layer that maps those 8.3 filenames to long ones. Also, are we sure that fdimage, running under DOS can handle longer names? Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence, is that possible?" The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message