On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:32:28PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > ISTR the fat patent was thrown out a couple of months back, as > everyone expected it to be. rdp and samba? No knowledge other than > its been a cat and mouse game with M$ trying to maintain > compatibility for samba. > That was their long filename support in msdos filesystems. The patent was important to Linux/M$ because most hotplug devices are using a vfat style filesystem. Sorry, nothing about NTFS. Robin Holt