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  8. <h1>Notice for Windows users</h1>THIS APPLIES TO SOME, NOT ALL, BUILDS OF PUPPY<br>
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  10. If you are running Windows, and viewing the contents of this CD, the
  11. filenames will not display correctly. For example, a file named
  12. 'puppy_wary_5.1.2.sfs' will display truncated as 'PUPPY_WA.SFS'. That
  13. is, Windows will truncate all long filenames to fit the "8.3" MSDOS
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  16. The reason for this is that the CD was created without Joliet
  17. extensions, required for Windows to recognise long filenames. This was
  18. done as I found a problem with running Puppy Linux in "multisession
  19. mode" with Joliet extensions -- don't worry if you don't know what
  20. multisession mode means for now, just take it that I found a conflict
  21. with Puppy Linux and a CD with Joliet extensions enabled.<br>
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  23. Normally, you would boot the live-CD on your PC and run Puppy Linux,
  24. and Puppy has tools for installing Puppy to hard drive or Flash drive
  25. if required. So, the above-mentioned problem is not an issue --
  26. however, some users do open the CD from a running Windows and copy out
  27. the files to install Puppy to hard drive or Flash drive.<br>
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  29. So, for anyone who wants to copy the files off the CD from a running
  30. Windows, after doing so, please rename the files to their full long
  31. names. Also, change all upper-case characters to lower-case. For
  32. example:<br>
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  37. <td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Truncated filename</span><br>
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  39. <td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Long (correct) filename</span><br>
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  43. <td style="vertical-align: top;">PUPPY_CUT2INSERT.SFS<br>
  44. </td>
  45. <td style="vertical-align: top;">puppy_DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX_DISTRO_VERSION.sfs<br>
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  49. <td style="vertical-align: top;">ZDRV_CUT3INSERT.SFS<br>
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  51. <td style="vertical-align: top;">zdrv_DISTRO_FILE_PREFIX_DISTRO_VERSION.sfs</td>
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  54. <td style="vertical-align: top;">VMLINUZ<br>
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  56. <td style="vertical-align: top;">vmlinuz<br>
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  60. <td style="vertical-align: top;">INITRD.GZ<br>
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  62. <td style="vertical-align: top;">initrd.gz<br>
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  67. <br>
  68. Regards,<br>
  69. Barry Kauler<br>
  70. <a href="http://bkhome.org/blog/">http://bkhome.org/blog/</a> <br>
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  74. <td style="vertical-align: top;"><small><small>(This file copied to live-CD by '3builddistro' script in Woof)</small></small><br>
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