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Seyed <seyed@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> writes:

>On 12 Feb 1997, Mark W. Maurer wrote:

>> Seyed (seyed@cse.unsw.EDU.AU) wrote:
>> : 
>> : 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?
>> 

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>> Ummm, would installing VFAT 95 from the kernel do this?  I'm not sure...

No. CDROMs can only be used with either ISO9660 (and additional
Rockridge Extensions) or MS' proprietary Joliet filesystem.
Since MS doesn't plan to support RockRidge, forget about the long filenames.
Use ISO9660 and ignore MS .
Or create the CDROMs from out of Linux, and use RockRidge extensions.

>> 
>Where can I find VFAT95? I haven't seen it in slackwar linux directory.

It doesn't exist.

The filesystem is called FAT32 , and a driver is available at

http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html

Michael
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