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- From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: CrossDos
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 15:35:07 GMT
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- In article <4ehibv$btn@due.unit.no>, kolla@nvg.unit.no (Kolbjxrn Barmen) writes:
- |>Herbert Klackl (hak@vip.at) wrote:
- |>: In a message from 28-Jan-96 01:01:55, Ian Print wrote:
- |>
- |>: >Does anyone know if there is a version of CrossDos or something
- |>: >similar that will read Windows95 long filenames? Or if anything is
- |>: >planned for this in the future?
- |>
- |>: Well, the last time (yesterday) I transferred files from a PC, Windows95 wrote
- |>: the files to the disk with the old 8+3 name format. Maybe to stay downwards
- |>: compatible. So it was no problem to use this disk with CrossDos.
- |>
- |>Could you check the commentfield to see if there're any long filenames there ?
- |>
- Maybe I'm not understanding the problem, but the usual floppy
- cross-dos has no more problem with win95 than does win3.1: the
- filename is clipped to seven characters plus a tilde ("~"), and
- the filesystem is still the same, ie the files really don't have
- long names, they are interpreted to have such by Win'95.
-
- To transfer the long names, you should Zip the files on the PC
- to a .zip file, then unzip them to the amiga.
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- Greg
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