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[Justin Gombos <mindfuq AT sbcglobal.net>]

* 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org <3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org> [2006-11-21 15:49]:
> 
> That is a characteristic of FAT16 (DOS) partitions.
> It only records eight characters before the dot and
> three characters behind the dot.  All other characters
> (and case) are lost when the file is saved to that
> filesystem.

There's a workaround in place for that.  The FAT16 partition I'm
working with supports 32 character names.  It seems that maybe this
condensed busbox toolset didn't implement whatever logic supports the
extended filenames.