RE: [ros-dev] Patent on FAT

[Ge van Geldorp]

>   From: Murphy, Ged (Bolton)
>  
>  nitro2k01 wrote:
>  
> >   I haven't seen the patant documents, but
> > doesn't this mean that any 
> >  file system which stores both long and short file names on the same 
> >  volume would be theoreticlly affected?
> >   
>  
>  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. 
AFAIK, it is about storing both a long and a short filename for the same
file in the same directory.

GvG