Tom Lee Mullins wrote:
"Microsoft has won its battle with the US Patents and Trademarks
Office (USPTO) over its attempt to patent the File Allocation Table or
FAT, which formed the basis of the management of disk storage in the
days of MS-DOS. "
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/82088/microsoft-wins
Andre Tertling wrote:
If I read the patents in question right, they are not exactly "FAT"
patents but rather "LFN for FAT" patents. The primary reason for the
patents is to cut a nice slice from the memory stick/card market for M$.
FAT has one large benefit: Because it is so simple, it is easy
gk967 wrote:
Sorry for don't remembering the name of the friend who asked for a
Norton Ghost (for backing up drivesor partitions, just in case),Open
Source alternative. I couldn't found any. But you can try Partition
Saving. Its freeware for all. Slower than Ghost but free and
effective. From
Carl Spitzer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 22:26 -0800, Blair Campbell wrote:
I compiled today an untested DJGPP binary for BSFIRC, hosted at
bsflite.sf.net (the AIM client has a DOS binary but not BSFIRC), and
it is availalbe at http://www.cow-net.com/kjbca/ for testing. It is a
m
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I believe such a program is reffered to as a formatting utility or a
disk partitioner, just like any other OS.
Bruce M. Axtens wrote:
> Is there a program to uninstall FreeDOS? Or do I have to write one? If
> the latter, which languages are "allowed"
