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Subject: Re: Re: FAT Filename Mangling bug. (was: RE : Regarding the recent recording PANIC's)

Re: Re: FAT Filename Mangling bug. (was: RE : Regarding the recent recording PANIC's)

From: Peter Koenig <www.access_at_my-mail.ch>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:9:22 +0100

Could you give a brief tutorial for creating that disk?
or put the diskimage somewhere?
would I be able to access my other (ntfs) drives?

thanks in advance

>On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Björn Stenberg wrote:
>> Short names are only ever seen in older operating systems that
>> don't support long names. Such old systems don't support USB
>> either, so it's not an issue for Rockbox.
>
>You underestimate the wonderfull world of MS :
>- on MS Dos, you can have USB (with 'duse' drivers) but not the long
>filenames (even with the Win98 Dos).
>- on Win NT, you've got the long filenames, but not the USB.
>
>I had to make a linux boot/root disk to get USB _and_ long filenames
>on my Win NT PC at work !
>
>Pascal.
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