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TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw)TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw)Posted Apr 3, 2009 10:53 UTC (Fri) by etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr (guest, #38022)In reply to: TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw) by JoeBuck Parent article: TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw)
Just gone and read Wiki (search FAT licensing) at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table And it seems you should not have a common namespace for short and long filenames - i.e. a readonly implementation where a file can be open by its two names (when it has a long filename) would be covered by the patent. That is what Linux VFAT do - moreover Linux VFAT is R/W.
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TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw) Posted Apr 10, 2009 0:06 UTC (Fri) by spitzak (guest, #4593) [Link]
I don't think you can open the file by both names in Linux. The ~ 8.3 name is completely hidden.
TomTom Settlement Aftermath: Get the FAT Out (Groklaw) Posted Apr 14, 2009 11:52 UTC (Tue) by etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr (guest, #38022) [Link]
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