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Date:	Sun, 3 Apr 2005 11:48:16 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: FAT32 - HPFS filenames ?

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Peter Skye wrote:
>
> Here is my question: Are FAT32 filenames fully compatible with HPFS, or
> are there any filename "gotchas" that I need to avoid? I need to create
> a list of FAT32 file naming rules so I have compatibility with HPFS,
> JFS, NTFS, HFS and HFS+. FAT32 is the only partition format that is
> compatible with my OS/2, the Windows (NTFS) studios, and the Mac (HFS,
> HFS+) studios.

I move files between HPFS and FAT32 a lot. I do not recall any problems.

I tend to keep names short rather than make them long just because I
can. So I may not have stressed that aspect.

Ray

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