Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:25:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VFAT/FAT32 Message-ID: <199802242325.PAA17023@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:39:15 %2B1030." <34F3531B.BB3C830E@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Hi Matt; thanks for taking the time to play with this. > On a newly "made world" machine at CTM src-cur.3261 I was able to > mount_msdos my C: drive which is a Win95 B release installation > on a newly formatted C: partition without FAT32 (without support > for large drives as Micky soft calls it). OK. > It looked good through Xfm with long filenames in mixed case and > filenames with spaces in them. There appears to be an odd quirk where a ' character will truncate a name when it is being retrieved. > So then I though I'd load StarOffice and try to read a Word 6 > document. > > However when I clicked on the /dos directory (my C: drive mount > point) using the "File Open" dialog box, the machine locked solid. Ouch. Can you reproduce this reliably? Do you have a serial port you can put a serial console on and perhaps poke the system a bit there? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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