[Siglinux] Re: Windows file names

2002-11-19 Thread Jason Smith
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 02:21 pm, Gordon Shaw Novak wrote: > Also, I seem to be able to write to /windows/ only from root, > and haven't been able to change the protections. Is there a way > to do that? I'm not sure about most of your problems; it's been a while. But... It looks like Linux

Re: [Siglinux] Windows file names

2002-11-19 Thread Omar El-Domeiri
to clarify there are different versions of fat that are all backward compatible.. originally microsoft only allowed the 8+3 file names.. so the long names are cludged on top of that system for mentioned backwards compatability, and even windows has to go look up the conversion from shortname to lon

[Siglinux] Re: Windows file names

2002-11-19 Thread Jason Smith
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 02:21 pm, Gordon Shaw Novak wrote: > When I access files from /windows/ , it seems that file names get > shortened and "edited" as seen by Linux; also files created from You could try "mount -o check=x" The manual page has a good summary of all mount options for vfat.

Re: [Siglinux] Windows file names

2002-11-19 Thread Omar El-Domeiri
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:21:14PM -0600, Gordon Shaw Novak wrote: > I have a dual-boot system with Debian and Windows ME. > When I access files from /windows/ , it seems that file names get > shortened and "edited" as seen by Linux; I think I'm reading this right... if you mean already existing

Re: [Siglinux] Windows file names

2002-11-19 Thread Daniel McCabe
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Gordon Shaw Novak wrote: > I have a dual-boot system with Debian and Windows ME. > When I access files from /windows/ , it seems that file names get > shortened and "edited" as seen by Linux; also files created from > Linux sometimes get converted to upper-case on Windows. > I

Re: [Siglinux] Windows file names

2002-11-19 Thread Chris Tooley
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:21, Gordon Shaw Novak wrote: > I have a dual-boot system with Debian and Windows ME. > When I access files from /windows/ , it seems that file names get > shortened and "edited" as seen by Linux; also files created from > Linux sometimes get converted to upper-case on Windo

[Siglinux] Windows file names

2002-11-19 Thread Gordon Shaw Novak
I have a dual-boot system with Debian and Windows ME. When I access files from /windows/ , it seems that file names get shortened and "edited" as seen by Linux; also files created from Linux sometimes get converted to upper-case on Windows. Is there a way to make the file names appear unchanged? A

Re: [Siglinux] flyers

2002-11-19 Thread jeffstrunk
I am posting the remaining flyers tonight. On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:31:13PM +0100, Victor Pelt wrote: > someone(s) needs to post more flyers > > jeff: have you posted flyers already, if not get up from that chair and > do something > > victor > > > >