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

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

Ooops. Next time I'll read all of my email before replying.
--- "D. Shane Robinson" <sean_orion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- 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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