SUMMARY: converting 8char msdos names back to long file names

From: Jim Jennis <jjennis_at_discovery.fuentez.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 13:41:32 -0500

Hi Tru 64 sysadmins...

Just to finish this one off, IMHO, Alan Davis came up with a great
suggestion. --it never occurred to me.

--Alan Davis wrote:

Do what the ISO-9660 standard for CD filesystems
does and create a "mapping" file that gets transferred along
with the files. This mapping file is then used to rename the
files on the UNIX side.

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I will have to look into it. I know that the Linux kernel has loadable
modules that do this (e.g. you get short file names if you don't load the
module and long file names if you do)
Thanks again,
Jim
At 01:31 PM 1/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Jim,
> You could do what the ISO-9660 standard for CD filesystems
>does and create a "mapping" file that gets transferred along
>with the files. This mapping file is then used to rename the
>files on the UNIX side.
>
>Alan Davis
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Jennis [mailto:jjennis_at_discovery.fuentez.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 12:35 PM
>> To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
>> Subject: SUMMARY: converting 8char msdos names back to long file names
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Tru 64 administrators!
>> 
>> Synopsis:
>> 
>> Can 8character "munged" (such as myfil~_1.zip) file names 
>> created by old
>> msdos programs be re-mapped to their original long file names 
>> with any unix
>> based utility?
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