Mount your Win98 drive as type vfat instead of msdos and you will see the long file names.
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Bret Craw wrote: > How do I get Linux to recognize the Windows files, so that I can use them. > I have free internet access in Win98, that I can't configure for Linux. I > pull down my files to the Windows partition. I have set up Linux to > recognize the MSDOS partition, so that I can see what is on the hard drive. > How do I get the files over into Linux and is there a way to get it to > recognize the long filenames, without concatinating them? I have tried to > do it with TKdesk, but it keeps telling me that the directory is not > correct, even though I am looking at the file in the window. I have tried > to copy the file, extracting the file to Linux, but nothing seems to work. > Is there a program that may make it easier? Also, I am extremely new to > Linux, and am more comfortable in XWindows. > > Bret Craw > Maintenance Renewal > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen