Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:50:55 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>, current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.0-RELEASE boot.flp fails to boot on K6/2 Message-ID: <200003230350.UAA36275@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:46:51 PST." <38D993AB.7B7051DC@gorean.org> References: <38D993AB.7B7051DC@gorean.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003221808140.70181-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> <200003222315.QAA34624@harmony.village.org>
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In message <38D993AB.7B7051DC@gorean.org> Doug Barton writes: : 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? But DOS will truncate it. By that point the name has served its purpose and it doesn't matter if it is truncated :-). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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