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by **John Hans** » Fri, 28 Jun 1996 04:00:00

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>Friends, Romans, Country men (and Women), and any linux mad caps...

> Simple question is it possible to mount a windows 95 dos disk
>so that Linux understands the long file names???

Yes you need the V-FAT file system. I have downloaded it, but not tried
it. The exact version you need depends on the kernel you are running.

I think is standard in latter kernels.

by **zip..** » Fri, 28 Jun 1996 04:00:00

If you really want to use it, you should know that the filesystem
is called vfat.

Ciao,

Robert
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by **Mark Hambli** » Tue, 02 Jul 1996 04:00:00

Thankyou to all respondants

I now know what I have to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Recompile a kernel

Regards

Mark H.
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Very Computer

mounting win95 partition

mounting win95 partition

mounting win95 partition

mounting win95 partition