Hi Jan and Martin, As promised, I have continued to investigate what is happening with Win98, even though I don't think it is a high priority. I've discovered two things that are interesting: 1) the 11 spaces varient works pretty nicely with it 2) the current dualnames patch works nicely if you change the first byte to a '~' instead of a space. What seems to be happening is that Win98 either wants all spaces, or it wants to see a '~' in the 8 byte prefix, after taking into account nul termination. If it doesn't see this '~' then it doesn't even look for a long name. Cheers, Tridge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html