Re: VFAT FS for kernel 1.2.13?

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From: Richard Spindler
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 00:00

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In article <32436fd1.0@cheese.pcug.org.au>, avidler@pcug.org.au (Alan
Vidler) wrote:

> freemant@wr.com.au (Kent Tong) wrote:
> 
> 
> >Does it exist? If yes, where? TIA!
> No guarentees to accuracy of answer, but I believe NO!
> a) 1.2.13 came out before Win 95, from memory.
> b) I think VFAT came in about 1.3.20ish
> 
> By the way, I've been heavily using VFAT with linux for months with no
> problems - as I have a SCSI DAT tape and Bill Gates doesn't know fancy
> things like SCSI exist,

Ya thats why N.T. and Windoze 1895 prefers to be on SCSI.

 Win95, at least until recently, had NO way of
> backing up to such devices. VERY galling as the Backup they provide is
> a gutted version of Norton Backup for Windows 3.1, which DID support
> both SCSI tapes and my older Archive Viper QIC150,(circa 1988
> vintage), which Bill's Win 95 hasn't heard of either. 

Maybe its not a standard SCSI interface ;)

> 
> Cheers, Alan Vidler

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From: spindler@mugca.cc.monash.edu.au (Richard Spindler)
Subject: Re: VFAT FS for kernel 1.2.13?
Date: 1996/10/20
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