Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:44:59 -0600

Baker, KA (Keith) wrote:

There may still be a
downside of having a DOS file system with 8.3 size filenames.

VxWorks supports an extension to the MS-DOS FAT filesystem whereby you can
format the disk to use long filenames - IIRC they basically just increased
the size of the filename field in the directory entry. The resulting disk
is not compatible with Win95/NT/XP's method of supporting long filenames
on FAT, but on a Flash disk which could never be mounted by a PC anyway
that really doesn't matter.
- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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