From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 3 04:47:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22468 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 04:47:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.inx.de (www.inx.de [195.21.255.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA22461; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 04:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jnickelsen@acm.org) Received: by www.inx.de (Smail3.2.0.96inx) from [195.21.163.120] (195.21.163.120) with esmtp id ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:45:39 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: jn@berlin.snafu.de Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <368E1EFB.918A2BF7@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 00:58:52 +0100 To: Mark Ovens From: Juergen Nickelsen Subject: Re: Accessing NTFS partitions Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-uk-users Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 14:28 +0100 02.01.1999, Mark Ovens wrote on freebsd-chat: >The driver, whilst working fine, is somewhat inconsistent in it's >use of long and short (8.3) filenames, e.g. ls on my system lists >both ``PROGRA~1'' and ``Program Files'' in the (NTFS) root dir. I >can ``cd'' to either and the ``pwd'' returns ``/ntfs/Program Files'' >in both cases. Isn't this exactly how it should be? Thinking in Unix terms, both the long and the short name are links to the same object, so if you cd to a directory you end up in the same directory regardless which link you use. Other than a Unix directory, though, it has not a single name, but two, but you want to know the long name. Greetings, Juergen. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.5.3i for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBNo6yrvxneYZkCUPbEQJMcQCg70n4oZl7Gvs58Bf5Kghw9bpYqPUAn2Ra AwHE1CD1LegNYV1E2EnYIwIS =n953 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message