On 5/8/2019 1:37 PM, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote:
Before Windows 2000, even in Windows 95, FAT32 was introduced with supported for longer filenames than the 8.3 limit of Dos 6.22.
Sorry, but this not correct. FAT32 doesn't know anything about long file names.
Long file names where first introduced in Windows NT 3.1 (on NTFS), with an extension called VFAT (Virtual FAT) on FAT16 partitions to be able to handle long filenames between the different file systems. And OS/2 supported long file names via an (incompatible to VFAT) extension called Extended Atrtributes (EA), both well before Windows 95. And it is this VFAT extension that is (was?) patented by Microsoft, not FAT32 by itself.
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