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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:54:50 +0000
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Subject: Re: c++ with djgpp without long filenames
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Hello.

Dirk Groeneveld wrote:
> I downloaded the archives drom the djgpp page and unzipped them on my
> linux box, on a reiserfs partition, with long filenames. Then I copied
> the (unzipped) files to a bunch of floppy disks that were formatted
> fat16. So I figure that the fat16 driver mistruncated the filenames,
> and actually it's the linux kernel that is to blame.

> I did it that way because the only way to get things into the actual
> destination machine is via 1.44MB floppy disk. I can't do a thing about
> this. And since some of the zip files are bigger than 1.44MB I unzipped
> them to get smaller chunks.
[snip]

How did you mount the floppy disk? Like so?

    mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

If you mount it as type 'vfat', then Linux will create both the long and
short filenames on the disk. Perhaps you should mount it as type 'msdos'
to get the truncated name rather than a name with numeric tails? Or try
the 'nonumtail' option for vfat? See the 'mount' man page for more details
("man mount").

HTH, regards,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]