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

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From: Timothy Watson
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <5dr5bj$6kh@news.mtu.edu> mwmaurer@mtu.edu (Mark W. Maurer)
writes:
> : 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?

The problem is, can you get Win95 to WRITE long filenames properly.
MicroSoft uses a proprietary (not Rock Ridge) extensions for long file
names.

-Tim
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From: tmwatson@umich.edu (Timothy Watson)
Subject: Re: How can I read long win95 files with linux on cdrom
Date: 1997/02/12
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