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A new VFAT patent avoidance patch

A new VFAT patent avoidance patch

Posted Jun 29, 2009 1:38 UTC (Mon) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159)
In reply to: A new VFAT patent avoidance patch by hawk
Parent article: A new VFAT patent avoidance patch

If the media player does not support long file names, then use short filenames when writing to it. The description of the patch indicates that you get valid FAT 8.3 file names if you use a valid 8.3 file name to start with.


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