Re: [ros-dev] Patent on FAT

[Rick Langschultz]

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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