Rebel wrote:
>Do you mean that FAT16 doesnt allow longfilenames?
>It's not true: even under FAT12 ( 3,5" floppy) you can have longfilenames.
Sorry, that's VFAT16 and VFAT12. I guess that FAT32 supports longer, the
others are only additions.
If you have Linux you can try and mount the same floppy twice - once with
"vfat" and once with "msdos" and the results will not be the same.
VFAT12 (and 16) work in the way that they store the rest of the filename as
a new file under with the attribs "directory" and "volume", of course only
a part will be saved in each of these files and you'll soon have multiple
allocated units which doesn't seem to belong to anything. And if these
files are removed using a utility/OS that only supports FAT the rest is
lost (until you reformat the drive).
FAT12 is in fact the most well spread of them all. I don't know if C64/128
supported it but almost all other systems do (ex. Amiga, Atari and Mac).
Since the systems that support FAT12 doesn't have LFN (on a FAT12 drive -
Amiga for instance has on it's own drives) this is easily proven.
//Bernie
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