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Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14
From: |
Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14 |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:10:56 -0500 (CDT) |
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Richard Dawe wrote:
>
> There are several people using DJGPP on old systems running with short
> filenames. I don't have numbers - it's a bit hard to get solid numbers
> from a newsgroup (comp.os.msdos.djgpp). ;)
Microsoft claims patent to the scheme used to store long filenames in
the FAT filesystem and now charges hefty licensing fees (I heard a
base price of $250K) for the right to commercially use versions of FAT
which support long filenames.
This means that embedded systems which are still tied to MS-DOS (or
open/free DR-DOS) may end up reverting to 8+3 FAT in order to avoid
sending Microsoft a lot of money.
There is also potential impact for other operating system's which use
or support extended FAT (QNX, vxWorks, etc.).
So, 8+3 limitations may re-appear in some areas which use GNU build
tools.
Bob
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- libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/04/22
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/04/22
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/04/22
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/04/22
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Richard Dawe, 2004/04/22
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/04/23
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Richard Dawe, 2004/04/23
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14,
Bob Friesenhahn <=
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Gary V . Vaughan, 2004/04/23
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Richard Dawe, 2004/04/24
- Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Dalibor Topic, 2004/04/26
Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14, Albert Chin, 2004/04/22