If M$ is demanding royalties for FAT I think dropping FAT support would be a great thing. have you ever tried to cd to a directory in dos or linux with filenames TESTFI~1.TXT through TESTFI~9.TXT. That can get quite annoying...
DROP FAT as the standard and adopt another FS before M$ decides to get ugly... On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:36 AM, nitro2k01 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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