From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Wed Jan 21 22:10:45 2004 To: MiNT Mailing List From: PeterSlegg Subject: Re: [MiNT] NEWFATFS & CAB X-Mailer: MyMAIL Rev:1.63-25.8620 (Atari/(STiK/STinG/GlueSTiK)) X-Hardware: Atari Milan MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:58:20 +0200 (GMT) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:58:20 +0200 (GMT) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <001891fc0000.3035000126ec@smtp.freeola.net> References: In-Reply-To: Pine.MNT.4.31.0401200822400.135-100000@UNI_MANiacs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by smtp1.freeola.com id i0LL85WX021721 Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: peterslegg@scubadivers.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id i0LLAho25010 On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:27:30 , Martin Tarenskeen wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, PeterSlegg wrote: > > > When attempting to save the hotlist, it fails with > > an error message saying it cannot save "hotlist.html" > > This error box cannot be cleared. The hotlist file is > > still called HOTLIST.HTM and I cannot change it to > > hotlist.html > > > > My F: partition is also NEWFATFS and works fine but I > > don't have CAB on it. D and F are both BGM. > > > > > Have I missed a step ? > > You have to enable VFAT to enable long filenames like "hotlist.html" > You can edit your mint.cnf for that, or use fsetter.app or mintset.acc to > change it on the fly. > That's what I thought. I don't need long filenames on this partition. I only wanted to use Newfatfs because it is faster and more reliable etc. Why is CAB or Newfatfs trying to read/write a long filename to the partition ? Regards, Peter ________________________________________________________________________ Cheaper and better broadband from Freeola - from £26.99 p/m plus FREE domain hosting, static IP and more! www.freeola.com/broadband