Re: Long filenames howto ?

[Petri]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Rebel wrote:

> Do you mean that FAT16 doesnt allow longfilenames?
> It's not true: even under FAT12 ( 3,5" floppy) you can have longfilenames.


No, you can't - it's not FAT that stores the long file name. (or, well it
is, sort of, but not as a file name.) It's the LFN system (which is NOT
part of any FAT specification) that stores the LFN.

But then again, you may put LFNs on whatever FAT type you wish, but FAT
still doesn't support it - only LFN compatible programs/drivers.

/petri