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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] slashes in FAT file names
Let me thank everyone for their advice; it looks as if I have enough
ideas to try out now. I'll do that when I'm fully awake an report back
on what worked.

-- hendrik

On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I have a 32GiB microSD card an am reying to read it on my Devuan system.
> I munted it with a simpel mount /dev/sdb1 /nedia/hendrik/
>
> It reads almost everything fine, except for a few files whose names
> contain '/' characters. I can handle the other horribly weird
> characters in file names -- emacs Rename in the directory
> editor works just fine. But the names containing '/'s even have
> emacs stymied.
>
> ls -l lists them like this:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 hendrik hendrik       0 Sep  1  2007 06 - Track 6.mq3
> -????????? ? ?       ?             ?            ? 07/TRA~1.MP3
> -rw-r--r-- 1 hendrik hendrik 3585716 Sep  1  2007 08-URA~1.MP3

>
> With the slash, it can't even figure out the permissions, ownership, or
> file size. Preumably some parts of the system interpret the '/' as the
> directory name separator, and in this file system that's not what it
> is.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas here other than begging, borrowing, or
> buying a Windows system?
>
> -- hendrik
>
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