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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

in your /etc/fstab

umount /dosc

Change the 'msdos' to 'vfat'

mount /dosc

and all should be happy.

If not you will have to recompile the kernel with the VFAT stuff turned on.

Cheers,
Chris
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Date: Wed Feb 12 1997