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[Matrix Mole <matrixm AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, sindi keesan wrote:

>  Can I 
> also make a linux package of files over 8.3 length, package them into a 8.3 
> tgz file, store it on a DOS partition, and then install it and get back the 
> correct linux file names?

No problem with this concept. I used to do something very similar using 
win9x long file names. Just compress them into a file that has the 
standard 8.3 dos lengths and everything inside of the file was fine after 
uncompressing on another win9x machine. Same with linux files. You can 
compress the files into a tarball with the standard 8.3 extension, and 
then when you need to uncompress/pkg it, you just untar it back onto the 
linux FS and the names will be the same as they were prior to being tar'd.

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