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Some links for those who didn't see the patents

Some links for those who didn't see the patents

Posted Dec 8, 2003 21:53 UTC (Mon) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Some links for those who didn't see the patents by proski
Parent article: Microsoft aiming IBM-scale patent program at Linux? (Register)

And don't forget the ISO9660 extensions for Unix (RockRidge) which add long filenames, ownership, permissions, devices, and symbolic links. Without that ISO9660 only supports uppercase filenames under 30 characters (and Windows actually restricts it to 8.3).


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Some links for those who didn't see the patents

Posted Dec 9, 2003 1:14 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

DOS restricts it to 8.3 (by obvious reason). Windows with 32bit driver (most Windows systems today) are just fine.

Some links for those who didn't see the patents

Posted Dec 11, 2003 9:13 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

Ah, but Microsoft has its own ISO9660 extensions (they had to reinvent
the wheel) called Joliet and something else which I can't remember at
the moment :)

At least NT4.0 had problems with 30 character filenames on a CD I burned
about 4 years ago...

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