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How to display long dosnames ?

Post by Sami Lou » Wed, 16 Oct 1996 04:00:00



I've been fighting with those Win95-longnames and linux.
I first met a problem, when i download netscape3.0 for linux using
win95 and the filename was stored on my harddisk using that ISO9660 (?)
format. The name of file i download was about 40 characters long, but
linux displays only 8+3 when in msdos filesystem.
How can i mount my msdos partitions under linux to be able to show long
filenames ?

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How to display long dosnames ?

Post by Hugh McCur » Wed, 16 Oct 1996 04:00:00



>I've been fighting with those Win95-longnames and linux.
>I first met a problem, when i download netscape3.0 for linux using
>win95 and the filename was stored on my harddisk using that ISO9660 (?)
>format. The name of file i download was about 40 characters long, but
>linux displays only 8+3 when in msdos filesystem.
>How can i mount my msdos partitions under linux to be able to show long
>filenames ?
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In the old days, I changed the name of the file before I downloaded
it.  In Linux 2.0.0 or greater, you can choose VFAT instead of MSDOS
file system support.  You might already have VFAT available as a
module.  If not, you can recompile the kernel.

When you mount the hard disk partition, use type VFAT instead of MSDOS
(the -t option in mount... # man 8 mount)

If you are mounting the DOS partition automatically, then edit your
/etc/fstab file.  Change the occurrences of msdos to vfat.

Hugh McCurdy

 
 
 
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How to display long dosnames ?

Post by Jizhong Wan » Wed, 16 Oct 1996 04:00:00



> I've been fighting with those Win95-longnames and linux.
> I first met a problem, when i download netscape3.0 for linux using
> win95 and the filename was stored on my harddisk using that ISO9660 (?)
> format. The name of file i download was about 40 characters long, but
> linux displays only 8+3 when in msdos filesystem.
> How can i mount my msdos partitions under linux to be able to show long
> filenames ?

> --



What version of kernel are your running? if you are using 2.0.* (if not,
maybe you should), you can mount your msdos partition as vfat type (file
system used in Windows95). And then you can used long filenames from
linux and windows95. I am using it.

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Jizhong Wang, Ph.D.                     St. Boniface Hosptial
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1. long long & long double types in Linux GCC

There are two non-standard types defined in Linux GCC: long long (8 bytes)
and "long double" (12 bytes, but I think it uses 10 bytes floating point
type supported by 80x87 coprocessor). Both seem to work internally OK,
but is there a way to "printf" such values. Man page for "printf" does mention a
format modifier "L" for long double values, but it is not working. Nothing
about "long long" can be found in manpage.

Any experience with these types?

regards, Michal.

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