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
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
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
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
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
