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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Win95 disks and FreeBSD?
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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 00:41:19 GMT
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Having been recently coerced into putting Win95 on my system, I recall
seeing some comments about incompatibilities between Win95's VFAT
filesystem and FreeBSD. I've not seen any problems yet (knock on wood),
but would appreciate knowledgable comments.
Does FreeBSD:
a) Work fine with Win95, but doesn't show long filenames on VFAT volumes?
b) Work fine with Win95 as long as it doesn't see long filenames?
c) Read Win95 VFAT volumes but can't safely write them?
d) Any of the above, depending on the phase of the moon?
I'm currently using 2.1, but might be upgrading soon, especially if
the forthcoming 2.2 addresses this particular area. (Full VFAT
support would definitely encourage me to upgrade, since my backup
system currently works only with FreeBSD.)
- Tim Kientzle