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Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register)Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register)Posted Dec 8, 2003 19:19 UTC (Mon) by pjs (guest, #10927)In reply to: Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register) by yohahn Parent article: Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register) The 32 byte FAT directory entries that are used to store the long filename do NOT store critically important information about the file, specifically the starting cluster, size, attribute bits, and modification time. So, it is quite easy to have only short 8.3 filenames, but there really is no option to have long filenames without their 8.3 counterparts.... at least within the scope of FAT, which is implemented in every almost operating system and countless portable devices.
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