Re: [ros-dev] Patent on FAT

[TwoTailedFox]

Memory cards could always be sold unformatted.

On 1/11/06, nitro2k01 <nitro2k01(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >   No. Long files
> > names were incorporated into unix systems long before the
> >  days FAT, or even DOS.
> >  This patent (if correct) is linked to FAT only. 
>  Yes of course, but isn't FAT
> pretty much the only file system
>  combining a long ("Test file.txt") and short ("TESTFI~1.TXT") file
>  name for each file?
>  Does the patent cover only the concept of such a file system, or the
>  implementation as well?
>
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