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From: George Durbridge
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:00

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Win 95B can use fat32, and I doubt fips would work with that - the docs
for my copy of fips indicate fairly close reliance on the fat16 spec.  But
the warning seems a bit conservative, as not all installations of Win 95B 
are on fat32 - on small drives, it installs fat16. 

Michael Strates (mstrates@minkirri.apana.org.au) wrote:
: On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Steve Thomson wrote:
: 
: > If you are using version 4.00.950B of Windows 95, you CANNOT use
: > Fips.exe
: 
: The reason for this (supposedly) is that the later versions of
: Windows95 use a new format called fat32.. Am I correct in suggesting this
: might account to many of the problems?

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Date: 1997/11/28
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