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From: mjastrem@thunder.temple.edu (M.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support Win95 long file names?
Date: 10 Apr 1997 15:58:53 GMT
Organization: The University of Michael
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stephen farrell (sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: 
: > > I am thinking of "upgrading" from NetBSD to FreeBSD, but I also would like
: > > to be able to mount Win95 partitions and "see" long file names.  Is this
: > > feature supported in FreeBSD 2.X/3.X?
: > 
: > Not yet, I'm afraid. :-(
: 
: FYI -- it is supported in Linux...

Now why you gotta go bringing Linux into this?? ;)

Michael.


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