New twist on drive copy - Win - Win using Linux to stage?

[A Duston]

Monty Harder wrote:
> 
> Hal wrote:
> 
> >keep together correctly.  Consider the following scenario:
> 
> >Do any recent copying/backup/archival tools maintain the
> >long/short file name relationship correctly?  Of course the
> >fact that you need a special utility to copy a file, and the
> >copy command doesn't work correctly, well . . .
> 
>   Excellent point.   It is not particularly likely that 
> executable files will fit your scenario, but it only takes 
> one to ruin your whole day.  There is a utility in the 
> toolsreskit directory of the Win98 CD that should back up 
> LFNs, so this becomes step 0.5 in my scenario, and restoring 
> them comes in about 5.5 or so.
> 
>  You get spoiled working with an OS that does this stuff right, 
> you forget how incredibly stupid the MS approach to LFNs is....

And considering the fact the Microsoft puts their own name on 
the front of all the directories they create, I think it is a 
much bigger problem than that.  'Hrmmm, is "micros~8" 
"Microsoft Office", or "Microsoft Visual Basic", or 
"Microsoft Visual Studio", or . . .'

Hal Duston
hald at sound.net