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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Greg Mayman wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:12:49 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > The busybox unzip is not fully featured.  You could try the larger one
> > from Slackware.  What was used to zip it, Ron?
>
> > Maybe BL cannot handle long files names on Windows FAT floppy disks
> > either?  Experiment and let us know.


Steven suggested that you 'insmod vfat', which is the module needed to 
read Windows long file names in BL3.  Probably most other distrubionts 
include it in the kernel instead of as a module.  Did you try that?
.........


> Windows showed _both_ sets with their long filenames.
>
> On the other computer I mounted the floppy.
>
> I viewed the disk with mc, d, and ls. All showed only the short
> filenames.
>
> Lastly, I started X, opened xterm and tried mc, d, and ls again,
> and again they showed only the short filenames.
>
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Sindi