[thelist] Linux Port to Home - Solved

You can still access 'wierd' windows file/directory names from linux by
wrapping quotes "" around the name.. 

For example, lets say I have a drive mounted on /win and want to get to
my Netscape mail folder.
On windows, it would be C:\Program
Files\Netscape\Users\longerthan8letters\Mail\InboxAlsoLongerThan8.3.mbox

To get to that from Linxu, you'd just have to wrap the quotes around it,
like so:

[djc@handy djc]$ cd "/win/Program
Files/Netscape/Users/longerthan8letters/Mail/InboxAlsoLongerThan8.3.mbox"

You can also use the bash autocomplete feature(hit tab to fill out a
file name) to do this automagically..

.djc.

dwayne wrote:

> this is great (I have a dual boot machine with windows partitions on /asmodeus /beelzebub and /cheitan ;) ), the only thing that sucks is that your filenames get mussed if they're longer than 8.3. (If anyone knows a way around that, I'd love to hear it). Which might not matter to Ron, but is why I didn't mention it.