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to: Murray Lesser
from: John Thompson
date: 1999-11-04 20:59:00
subject: File Systems

In a message to Eddy Thilleman, Murray Lesser wrote re: File Systems

ML> When you copy (or move) the
ML> FAT file to an HPFS partition (using WPS), the original long name will
ML> be restored.

...And if you use 4OS2 instead of CMD.EXE, copying or moving 
files to and from FAT partitions from the command line also 
preserves and restores the long filename in the .longname 
extended attribute.


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