On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 07:40:51PM -0400, Jean Morissette wrote: > Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 06:06:55PM -0400, Jean Morissette wrote: > >... > > > >>When I transfert files from my girlfriend Windows XP computer to my > >>Linux FC2 computer, I cannot read the files names properly from my > >>Linux. > > > > Here is a example: A file named originally "Résumé synthèse.doc" on > WinXP machine appear "R sum synth se.doc" on Linux. Try "stat Résumé synthèse.doc R sum synth se.doc" and "stat Résumé synthèse.doc R sum synth se.doc" | od -xc I am curious if the spaces are realy spaces. A step in the transfer process might cause them to be translated and I cannot tell if it is on the Linux side or the Win side yet. A couple weeks back there was a discussion on ftp with regard to text and binary transfers and where some translation were done. Make sure the ftp transfer uses binary. Also find a windows binary for Putty (ssh for Win). Use pscp to move files. Any one traveling should have a cdrom with putty handy on it. ... also what filesystem was on the USBkey and what filesystem type was detected and used by mount. There is some file name munging on fat (hint try vfat before msdos) and see mount options. See relaxed in the mount man page, under fat.... check=value Three different levels of pickyness can be chosen: r[elaxed] Upper and lower case are accepted and equivalent, long name parts are truncated (e.g. verylongname.foobar becomes verylong.foo), leading and embedded spaces are accepted in each name part (name and extension). n[ormal] Like "relaxed", but many special characters (*, ?, <, spaces, etc.) are rejected. This is the default. s[trict] Like "normal", but names may not contain long parts and special characters that are sometimes used on Linux, but are not accepted by MS-DOS are rejected. (+, =, spaces, etc.) Of interest the USBkey can be dumped with dd and the bits inspected with od. We should see what bits are on the device if possible. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Me, I would "Rather" Not.