On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:37:42PM -0500, John Macdonald wrote:

# U.S. Obvious #5,579,517 Long Common name space for and shorts filenames # U.S. Obvious #5,745,902 Method and system for accessing has file using file names having different file name formats # U.S. Obvious #5,758,352 Long Common name space for and shorts filenames # U.S. Obvious #6,286,013 Method and system for providing has common name space for long and shorts spins names in year operating system

Okay, as someone else said, these all seem to relate to long filenames on FAT (i.e. VFAT). What about people who don't use those extensions? My digital camera sticks very strictly to the old 8.3 filenames. And hey, if a Linux person needs to use a FAT drive for file exchange, but usually use Linux, there may be a revisiting of UMSDOS. ;) -- taa /*eof*/ -- 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