From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 17 5:53:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B91D15176 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 05:53:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10YUYn-000O1T-0K; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 12:51:02 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id NAA01309; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:50:34 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id NAA00380; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:46:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:46:45 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Jack Freelander Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long filenames Message-ID: <19990417134645.B252@marder-1> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Jack Freelander on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:40:47AM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:40:47AM -0400, Jack Freelander wrote: > I have mounted a FAT CD which, CD's are ISO 9660 format, not FAT. > unfortunately, has long filenames. Is there > any special trick to get FreeBSD to correctly use the long filenames, > instead of the mangled 8.3 names that Microsloth probably uses in its > directory blocks? > AFAIK *nix can only see LFNs if the CD has Rock Ridge extensions, which is what the TRANS.TBL files in each directory are (they contain the 8.3 <==> LFN associations). If the CD is intended for Win only then the chances are it won't have LFN's. Dspite all M$'s shouting when it introduced LFNs (as though it was something new) they still ship all their CDs (OS and apps) with 8.3 filenames, the install progs create LFNs on the disk. FWIW, the driver/utilities CD that came with my Diamond Fireport SCSI card will mount OK under FreeBSD, but ``ls'' shows nothing, not even ``.'' and ``..''. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message