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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!128.42.5.19!rice!not-for-mail From: Robert Findler <robby@new-world.cs.rice.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support Win95 long file names? Date: 23 Mar 1997 23:33:05 -0600 Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 20 Message-ID: <d6r7mix97n2.fsf@new-world.cs.rice.edu> References: <01bc245f$d7106440$a4dd130f@HPIS0132.aus.hp.com> <331FA612.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <87ybc09j95.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: new-world.cs.rice.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37642 stephen farrell <sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> writes: > > "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > Chris Tham wrote: > > > I am thinking of "upgrading" from NetBSD to FreeBSD, but I > > > also would like to be able to mount Win95 partitions and > > > "see" long file names. Is this feature supported in > > > FreeBSD 2.X/3.X? > > > > Not yet, I'm afraid. :-( > > FYI -- it is supported in Linux... Does anyone know if there are any plans to support Windows 95 long filenames in FreeBSD? I need to be able to swap files back and forth which which can be quite tricky without that. Thanks, Robby