From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <199904081620.SAA11848@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: LFN=y and MS-RAMDRIVE
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:20:25 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP-WORKERS)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990408121134.29868k-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "Apr 8, 99 12:12:29 pm"
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> Could you please do something simpler to verify this problem, like
> copy a file with a long name to the RAM disk and then list the
> directory there with `ls' or DIR?

Like this?
bash$ ls -l loooooongfilename
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root           13 Apr  8 18:13 loooooongfilename
bash$ cp loooooongfilename g:/
bash$ ls -al g:/
total 3
drwxr-xr-x   2 dosuser  root           32 Aug 21  1991 .
drwxr-xr-x   2 dosuser  root           32 Aug 21  1991 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root           13 Apr  8 18:15 loooooon


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							MartinS