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RE: Umsdos over VFAT?



On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> > Does anyone know if it's possible?  I managed to mount a VFAT
> > filesystem as umsdos, but I wander if it's going to screw up the
> > partition when Win95 access it as a VFAT.
> 
> it won't screw up, BUT, if you try to run ls on an msdos (maybe also
> umsdos) mounted volume that has long filenames, you will get kernel alerts
> about volume not mounted -t vfat.
> 
> Isn't there a umsdos over Win95 FAT32? 

no, and as far as my estimations go, UMSDOS will soon be dropped
altogether. i.e.: FAT chance :)

> Actually windows 95 support symbolic links by use of its *.LNK files
> (shortcuts).

HAHAHAHA! good one, almost thought you were serious for a minute....
Unix' symbolic links don't cause your disk to format itself while you surf
the web...

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