Re: How retain Windows long file names?
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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] André Bell wrote:
> When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine
> with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long
> file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files between systems?
>
How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem supports names up to 256
characters. Are you sure you're not first putting the files on a plain
DOS filesystem that lacks support for long names?
> Also, is there an equivalent command to copy the files to linux including
> full paths? The above mentioned diskette has around 500 cgi and html files
> in 50 subdirectories and I'd like to be able to copy them to linux within
> their respective paths without having to manually enter all 50
> subdirectories and manually copy the files over, one subdirectory at a time.
cp -r copies entire directory trees. It's in the man page.
HTH,
noah
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