On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 15:21 -0700, Ralf Quint wrote: > 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. > > Ralf
Does Freedos have the ability to read long filenames and write long filenames or is Microsoft's patent an issue? _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
