On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:42:21PM -0500, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
What is VERY interesting is that none of the patents in question have to do with the filesystem. They ALL have to do with the way DOS 6 started
DOS provided long filename support? Not that I remember. It all started with Windows 95. -- 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
Taavi Burns wrote:
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:42:21PM -0500, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
What is VERY interesting is that none of the patents in question have to do with the filesystem. They ALL have to do with the way DOS 6 started
DOS provided long filename support? Not that I remember. It all started with Windows 95.
It's moot, but I think it was the Windows 95 version of DOS, which stored long filenames with the 8.3 convention. So whateverfile.txt is stored in W95 DOS as whatev~1.txt 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
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