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Re: [BL] zip drives with BL

From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [BL] zip drives with BL
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:15:12 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> > Are vfat and msdos the same thing?
>
> No. msdos was for DOS. vfat was for Windows (95 I think).
> vfat is similar to mdsos but has long filenames.

I believe msdos is FAT16 while vfat is FAT32. The latter supports long
file names and drives over 2GB. FAT16 is limited to 2GB partition sizes
and 8.3 filenames.

James

Re: [BL] zip drives with BL, Sheldon Isaac, 02/03/2005
- Re: [BL] zip drives with BL, 3aoo-cvfd, 02/03/2005
  - Re: [BL] zip drives with BL, sindi keesan, 02/03/2005
  - Re: [BL] zip drives with BL, James Miller, 02/03/2005
    - Re: [BL] zip drives with BL, sindi keesan, 02/04/2005
      - Re: [BL] zip drives with BL, Ken Martwick, 02/05/2005
        
        [BL] 360K floppy drive works in 1 of 4 computers, sindi keesan, 02/05/2005
        
        Re: [BL] 360K floppy drive works in 1 of 4 computers, 3aoo-cvfd, 02/05/2005
        
        Re: [BL] 360K floppy drive works in 1 of 4 computers, sindi keesan, 02/05/2005
        Re: [BL] 360K floppy drive works in 1 of 4 computers, sindi keesan, 02/05/2005
        [BL] device or resource busy, sindi keesan, 02/07/2005
        Re: [BL] device or resource busy, James Miller, 02/07/2005
        Re: [BL] device or resource busy, sindi keesan, 02/07/2005
        Re: [BL] device or resource busy, 3aoo-cvfd, 02/07/2005