On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, magetoo@fastmail.fm wrote:
>   How come I get short filenames only on FAT floppies I formatted on
> my BSD box?  They seem to work just fine in Windows machines, but when
> I read them on my NetBSD 1.6 system again, I get short filena~1.mes
> only.

See the "-l" option for mount_msdos.  The default depends on whether the
root directory already contains long file names.

>   This does not happen with pre-formatted disks.  I haven't tried
> reformatting on the Win box, except for a quick format, which didn't
> help.

It seems likely that the disks you thought were pre-formatted in fact
already contain long file names in the root directory.

--apb (Alan Barrett)