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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?
: 
: Thanks,
: Seyed
: 

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

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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.

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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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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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In article <01bc189c$e3b22900$d69f389d@v-jurgex-main>,
	"Jurgen Exner" <v-jurgex@microsoft.com> 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

> 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.
No way.

> 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.
To store long filenames (among a lot of other things), Linux, as
do all other *IXes, uses the Rock Ridge extensions. This is a sorta
standard established way back. Now when Microsoft finally got round
to supporting long filenames also (congratulations!), being wankers,
they of course invented their own extension format. I think it's called
Joliot?? Juliet?? Or something like that. There is no driver for Linux as
of yet, as I know. And Microsoft has said (as I have picked up somewhere
on the net from someone) that they will not support Rock Ridge. Now that
is no surprise really - it was the reason in the first place not to be
compatible with someone else, wasn't it?

End of story: When making CDs with long filenames, scrap M$ and use
mkisofs. It works.

Volker

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