Re: How can I read long win95 files with linux on cdrom

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From: Seyed
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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On 12 Feb 1997, Jurgen Exner wrote:

> Seyed <seyed@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> wrote in article
> <Pine.GSO.3.95.970212113511.2568D-100000@eiger.pv.unsw.EDU.AU>...
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I've burned a CD using win95 and have a lot of files with long names (
> > more than 8.3 characters). I tried to read them from linux (istalled
> > inside a directory on my PC) and what I saw was the long file names are
> > truncated and there is ~ sign on the file names. Anyone knows how I can
> > get linux to read the file names properly and be able to install the
> > softwares from CD instead of copying them into HD and renaming them?
> 
> Does it is possible to burn a VFAT on a CDROM? If the FS on the CDROM is
> indeed a VFAT, then mount the CDROM with FS type vfat instead of iso9660.
> 
> If it's iso9660 (what I belive), then you should enable the Rockrigde
> Extensions when mounting the CDROM with linux.

What is the command for this?

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From: Seyed <seyed@cse.unsw.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: How can I read long win95 files with linux on cdrom
Date: 1997/02/12
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