[linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk

["D. Shane Robinson" <sean_orion@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought that I had read that Win9x uses either free space in the
FAT to accomodate long file names or it used the second FAT. Anyone
know?
--- "gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:53 AM
> Subject: [linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk
> 
> 
> > True on the long filename support, but not for the floppy format.
> > AFAIK the "auto" setting in the fstab for the floppy always picks
> vfat,
> > but it is not necessary that it do so.
> 
> hmm...  i thought it defaulted to msdos, not vfat...  atleast it
> used to
> (circa RH5.1 days)...  maybe that's changed (which would be
> good)...
> 
> > You can use a floppy formatted under dos 3.2 on a win98 machine
> and
> > still use long filenames. In fact I have floppies that I have not
> used
> > for many years and tried it successfully.
> > See the listing below.
> 
> correct me if i'm wrong, but don't floppies use FAT12?  i tho't i
> remembered
> seeing that in my win2k pro book in class...  i'm guessing that the
> VFAT
> stuff is like a layer that sits on top of the actual format and
> just does
> the xlation (oh, just read the rest of your e-mail...  i agree
> about the
> long filename basically being a pointer to the shorter one...  you
> can even
> see the short names in win98+ w/ a commandline switch to the dir
> command ...
> dir /x shows both short and long names)
> 
> thanks for the good explainations and examples... : ^ )
> 
> gLaNDix
> 
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