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#! rnews 1291 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.tm.net.my!not-for-mail From: "Othman bin Hj. Ahmad" <othmana@tm.net.my> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? Date: 6 Mar 1997 10:37:51 GMT Organization: TMnet Malaysia Lines: 15 Message-ID: <01bc2aa0$887c1b20$430ebcca@umlugghc> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <01bc1795$c7e857b0$57c147cf@jbushakra><Pine.OSF.3.95.970213145519.12910A-100000@alpha1.phoenix.net> <q8g1yzscal.fsf@replicant.csci.unt.edu> <3315ED37.53C6@center.uscs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kkb-14-67.tm.net.my X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36822 L. Scott Emmons <scotte@center.uscs.com> wrote in article <3315ED37.53C6@center.uscs.com>... > Bruce Jackson wrote: ... > I'm thinking it HAS been fixed. I regularly mount up 1GB Jaz disks, > in MSDOS format, and "dump|gzip" to them. I've had some occasional minor > problems that DOS/Win95's "scandisk" has found (complaints about broken > directories), but nothing that caused data loss. Same with me with 2.1G Quantum Fireball Big Foot. But it cannot handle long file names as Win95.