At 11:36 AM 3/31/2009, Blair Campbell wrote: > > And this means that basically implementing FAT12/16/32 in order to > > store and retrieve files, while using the old 8.3 filename scheme, in > > FreeDOS is perfectly fine, you just can't implement long file names > > and Extended Attributs as covered by those patents. > >What about the way UMSDOS used to do it in linux?
I am not a legal expert, but I could see that this is possibly infringement of one of those patents, as the patents cover the methodology not the implementation. Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
