erik quanstrom wrote:

i love it.  we have complaining that fat doesn't do more
than 8.3 and trolling that there's a patent liability for
doing more than 8.3 within 24 hrs.
thanks but I'm not trolling, not complaining

just to be clear.  fat itself is not patented.  just some
particular aspects of a 8.3 workaround.

though maybe the inability to do fat32 will save you.

dossrv and 9load both read fat32.
I was refering to format not dossrv

 BUGS
         Format can create FAT12 and FAT16 file systems, but not
         FAT32 file systems.  The boot block can only read from FAT12
         and FAT16 file systems.

I like the sound of the sector 1 idea, I'm sure making a tool to r/w it in Linux / whatever can't be hard.

i think that's the point of using fat.  no tools required.
No tools except a second OS installed on your machine / one you can plug your disk in to

you're already in a pickle if you've gotten to this point.
consider the acer inspire machine this week that
but as you say here, if you're having trouble, you need something to help you. The great help you've been giving people here was via iso files

Anyway, there are good arguments on both sides. There's only one way to solve this :

FIGHT




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