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Longname file system?

jmspaggijmspaggi Posts: 629
edited 2011-06-28 06:15 in Propeller 1
Hi,

I'm wondering if there is any filesystem object managing long file names? What ever file system it is, I don't really care. Because I have to put catalogue on all my directories, and it sucks. Take time to read, memory to load it in the prop, memory in th SD, and so on.

Any recommandation?

Thanks,

JM

Comments

  • blittledblittled Posts: 681
    edited 2011-06-26 17:42
    Since Microsoft holds the rights to long names in fat16 or fat32 file systems for NTFS there are not any longname file systems in the OBEX. You could modify one to use long file names but only for your own personal use. The only other alternative is to come up with a Linux SD card driver since they also have long file names with no copyright restrictions.
  • jmspaggijmspaggi Posts: 629
    edited 2011-06-28 06:15
    Hi Blitted,

    As it was discussed on another thread, the patent is related to writing both long name and short names at the same time. But there is no patent affecting reading the long name only. So a read only FAT32 longname only object will not be affected by any patent. And that's what I'm looking for...

    Unfortunatly I'm not good enought with SPIN and PASM to update an existing object to read longnames instead of shorts ones, but if anyone as technical document on the way it's done, I'm ready to give it a try ;)

    JM
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