Hi Pavel, > Actually, why not having dosfsck creating _matching_ short names for > long names? As it only writes short names, it should be safe :-). As I mentioned to Boaz, what usually matters for claim construction in patents is the overall system. I'm sure John Lanza would be happy to run through it with you if you want a more legally detailed answer, but basically breaking it up within the one system isn't likely to help us. Like I mentioned to Boaz though, do keep thinking about it. There may well be a better solution that nobody has suggested yet. You might also like to read the file wrapper (availble on the USPTO site) which shows the discussions between the patent office and the applicant. That is often a good source of inspiration for patent workarounds. If you think you've found something then it might be a good idea to raise it with John Lanza first. Cheers, Tridge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
