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A new VFAT patent avoidance patch

A new VFAT patent avoidance patch

Posted Jun 27, 2009 16:23 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
In reply to: A new VFAT patent avoidance patch by jordanb
Parent article: A new VFAT patent avoidance patch

According to the FAQ linked in the summary, that "bug" (feature?) already exists in Win XP, but not Vista nor Windows 7. I'm referring to the random bytes filled in the 11-byte field used to store the short (8.3) filename.


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