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

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From: Gregory Wierzchowski
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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Seyed 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Seyed
 
How did you mount the CD ? Maybe would be woth trying "mount -t vfat" ?
I'm not sure if this will work, just guessing.
	Greg.

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From: Gregory Wierzchowski <gregw@interactive.wsj.com>
Subject: Re: How can I read long win95 files with linux on cdrom
Date: 1997/02/12
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