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

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From: Jurgen Exner
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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Seyed <seyed@cse.unsw.EDU.AU> wrote in article
<Pine.GSO.3.95.970212113511.2568D-100000@eiger.pv.unsw.EDU.AU>...
> 
> 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?

Does it is possible to burn a VFAT on a CDROM? If the FS on the CDROM is
indeed a VFAT, then mount the CDROM with FS type vfat instead of iso9660.

If it's iso9660 (what I belive), then you should enable the Rockrigde
Extensions when mounting the CDROM with linux.
But I have a vague memory about that W95 can't write Rockrigde format, only
plain iso9660.

jue

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From: "Jurgen Exner" <v-jurgex@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: How can I read long win95 files with linux on cdrom
Date: 1997/02/12
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