-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/2019 19.33, James Knott wrote:
On 2019-12-04 01:18 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
James Knott wrote:
On 2019-12-04 11:47 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
AFAIK, the only thing gained with exFAT is support for large files, And long file names. You may recall using the dir command and seeing all the short file names containing a ~. Right, I forgot about that one. err, no. Long file names came in with the VFAT kludge and have been in FAT32 before exFAT was invented.
I think you're getting quotes mixed up. I'm the one who mentioned the short file names WRT VFAT. I was quite familiar with that as I was working at IBM at the time and, as an OS/2 user (and 3rd level support) we often poked fun at how MS handled long file names, compared to OS/2 & HPFS, which could do 255 characters, without resorting to the nonsense that Windows 95 needed.
I also knew FAT in depth; I had a project to create a defrag program optimized for speed (I never actually did it). When VFAT came I was not that interested. The directory entries store a short version of the long name (8.3 chars), while the long names were stored somewhere else, but I do not remember where. A real kludge, that I remember. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXegAwgAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1e9HAJ9cMK/9pBElwlEFyBQnnkGkCf0cMgCbBtrluUYKBiWSpJ8bJOkvXihR9lo= =csAQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org