Re: Apple IIgs to ms-dos

[jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 30 Jan 1997 20:48:17 GMT, cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)
wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Jan 1997 21:01:18 GMT, jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)
>wrote:
>
>>The problem that people are having is from the new FAT system that was
>>introduced with Windows 95.  The MS-DOS FST cannot handle this new FAT
>>format, only the old one.  Fortunately, this new FAT is an optional
>>setting and can be avoided.
>
>Windows 95, in and of itself, did not introduce any such thing.
>
>*YES*, the Windows 95 floppies (and some other Microsoft floppies) use a new, 
>proprietary 1.7MB (or thereabouts) for software distribution, but Win95, out 
>of the box, will not allow you to format disks in this matter.  So I don't 
>know why the MS-DOS FST on the GS would care.
>
>Now if you mean the *HARD DRIVE* FAT, there was an optional FAT32 introduced 
>in *some* OEM versions of Win95, but the over-the-shelf versions don't have 
>it, and in any case it's not relevant to this discussion.

The more I look into it, and that hasn't been a lot because I haven't
had the time, the more I think I was wrong initially.

I have heard about the FAT32 but didn't realize that it was introduced
by other manufacturers or that it was limited to hard drives.

I'm now wondering whether the MSDOS FST's problem is with the way
Windows 95 deals with long filenames.  Apparently it uses multiple
directory entries to store the extra filename information or something
but I haven't had a chance to look into it further.