M$ to license FAT

Taavi Burns wrote:

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There's a very happy "feature" of VFAT.

Create a file "Thisisaverylongfile2.txt". Note that the short version of this comes out as "THISIS~1.TXT".

Create a file "Thisisaverylongfile1.txt". Note that the short version of this comes out as "THISIS~2.TXT".

Now "del *1.TXT" and watch BOTH FILES DISSAPEAR.

Did you really mean to do that?

Holy Shit. Are you serious? Chris -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml