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From: Tim Smith
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:00

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Michael Strates  <mstrates@minkirri.apana.org.au> wrote:
>revisions of Windows 95 are set to format by default. This is due to, I
>beleive the specifications for FAT32 being with-held by Microsoft
>Corporation, and hence is probably targetted at the Linux community,
>because FIPS won't work on them.

(1) The FAT32 specification is available.

(2) Linux can mount FAT32 partitions, so even if the FIPS authors could not
find the specification on Microsoft's web site, all they had to do was look
at the Linux source.

--Tim Smith

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From: tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith)
Subject: Re: Fips problems
Date: 1997/12/22
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