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

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From: Lance Kalzus
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:00

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Seyed (seyed@cse.unsw.EDU.AU) wrote:
: 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?

Find CD-ROM software that burns in files with the Rock Ridge extensions as
opposed to VFAT long filenames.

-- 
				Just another lamer in the soup,
				Lance Kalzus <kalzus@b48-174.datanet.nyu.edu>
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				 1536/B2EC55A5 1996/10/12)

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From: kalzus@b48-174.datanet.nyu.edu (Lance Kalzus)
Subject: Re: How can I read long win95 files with linux on cdrom
Date: 1997/02/12
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