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From: "Humprey C. Sy" <humprey@linux1.dlsu.edu.ph>
To: David Clear <davidc@pdd.3com.com>
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Subject: Re: Availability of Win95 Filesystem on FreeBSD?
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On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, David Clear wrote:

> +  Can FreeBSD 2.1 msdosfs read/write my Windows 95 partition with long
>    file names?

It can read these files in MSDOS 8.3 filenames format, just like when you 
read those files in DOS  mode.

> +  Can I trust FreeBSD not to trash my '95 filesystem? (I remember in
>    the past, the msdos filesystem was write-once, read-no-more).

Nothing's happened to me so far...

- Humprey -