-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 02:01:15PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Le primidi 11 nivôse, an CCXXV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > From personal experience decades ago, on a dos3.2 system, this is > > correct. But I can't testify about the newer, or the now several non-M$ > > versions of dos. I saw an announcement of yet another dos release just a > > couple weeks back. I assume its getting better > > Think a little more about it: it is a limitation of the format, not the > operating system. If an operating system extends the format, it is no > longer compatible with the rest of the world, and then there is no > reason to use FAT at all.
Yes, my hunch was also that it is a limit of the on-disk format (which is, as you say, set in stone), although I expressed it in a pretty round-about way, it seems :) thanks - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlhnzbsACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaerACfWhl4J5oA1wPdA0DTi7cPM4dP 0TUAnROtKgKs9IG5rHWgD6dAk62+wCiF =5k1I -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----