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
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