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  • 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




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