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Seyed <seyed@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> wrote in article
<Pine.GSO.3.95.970212183910.4346E-100000@eiger.pv.unsw.EDU.AU>...
> On 12 Feb 1997, Chris Stacey wrote:
> 
> > In article
<Pine.GSO.3.95.970212113511.2568D-100000@eiger.pv.unsw.EDU.AU>, Seyed
<seyed@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> writes:
> > >
> > >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?
> > 
> > I assume you have a line something like 
> > 
> > /dev/hda1        /dosc        msdos       
defaults,uid=29044,gid=106,umask=007  1  1
> 
> I don't have msdos and /dosc. I only have /DOS

The mountpoint is irrelevant at all (i.e. it doesn't matter if it's called
/DOS or /dosc or /I/want/to/have/my/drive/C/down/here).
The point is the file system type "msdos". Change that to "vfat" to mount a
partition that is formatted with VFAT.
For more details see "man fstab" and "man 8 mount"

Anyway, it won't solve your problem, because (as others pointed out) Win95
doesn't use VFAT or the standardized ISO9660 with Rockrigde Extensions but
a proprietary FS for CDROMs..

> > If not you will have to recompile the kernel with the VFAT stuff turned
on.
> > 
> How can I do this? give me some detailed info. 

As it is not recommended by the nettiquette to post long READMEs here, just
a pointer to /usr/src/linux/README !

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