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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 09:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "N. Emile Akabi-Davis" <akabi@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>
To: nik@iii.co.uk
cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Reflections on FreeBSD 2.2.6
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 nik@iii.co.uk wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 08:03:05AM -0400, N. Emile Akabi-Davis wrote:
> > > Parellel port ZIP support is in -current, if you have the resources to
> > > run that. Alternatively, try 
> > > 
> > >     <URL:http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html>
> > > 
> > > which has a driver and instructions on how to use it on your system.
> > Visited the site, got the tarbol and have installed it.
> > Works fine except I do not have long file name support.
> > Quick Q: Does msdos driver support long filenames and it
> > yes how do I activate it?
> 
> Two choices. 
> 
>   1. Upgrade to the newly released 2.2.7, which has FAT32 support, which
>      includes long filenames.
Planning on this over the weekend.

> 
>   2. Install the mtools port/package, which is a set of tools specifically
>      for accessing DOS disks, and supports long filenames.
Will use this for the moment.

> Option 2 is probably the simplest.
Thanks

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