[Discussion] FAT file systems

[Dave Yeo]

On 12/13/09 05:09 am, 73357.3046 at compuserve.com wrote:
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> I must have missed this along the way.
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> 2 GB USB thumb drive:  Both MAC OS X and eCS report the file system being used on the drive as 'FAT'.  On the MAC I can write and read files with long file names.  But on the eCS machine, all the file names are 8.3 and that's all it will write or read.  Isn't there some way to have eCS handle the long file names properly ?
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There are a couple of programs that sort of handle vfat (FAT with long 
file names). The old vfat ifs which I don't think works with anything 
newer then WARP4. A netdrive plugin, a couple of programs that will fill 
in the .LONGFILE EA so the WPS sees the long names and a couple for 
copying. See 
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?button=Search&key=vfat&dir=%2F

Dave