Since you probably have a kernel which supports "vfat" then mount the
floppy as vfat, not msdos. Then you will get the long file name, not
one truncated to 8.3.
Eg: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
enjoy!
Martin
> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Jase wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've recently downloaded a tar.gz file into my windoze standalone
> > computer and would like to transfer it over to my Linux standalone
> > computer (RH5). How can I go about doing this if Linux
> formats a floppy
> > differently than dos? Thanks!
> >
> > Jase
> >
> You can format and read dos formatted floppies in Linux
> (mounting : mount
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t msdos) (formatting: mkdosfs /dev/fd0)
>
> Frank
>
