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From: | Gary V . Vaughan |
Subject: | Re: libtool--gary--1.0--patch-14 |
Date: | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:39:13 +0100 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bob, On 23 Apr 2004, at 17:10, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
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.
These would only be target hosts for a cross build though right? No oneis actually going to host a full development environment on such machines
these days, surely? Cheers, Gary. - -- Gary V. Vaughan ())_. address@hidden,gnu.org} Research Scientist ( '/ http://tkd.kicks-ass.net GNU Hacker / )= http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool Technical Author `(_~)_ http://sources.redhat.com/autobook -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFAiXDlFRMICSmD1gYRAh//AKCbrc05/IRZOEVYXmbsEtSKFek5SwCgvOhM dZ+Du7vz/cH+TGvNU+v2koM= =5HvM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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