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to: Murray Lesser
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 1999-10-25 19:51:03
subject: File Systems

 -=> Quoting Murray Lesser to Andy Roberts <=-

 ML> But I would never attempt to format any of my "removable media"
 ML> drives HPFS.  While it would be possible (in some cases), it most
 ML> certainly wouldn't serve any useful purpose.

Well, there *is* one reason for HPFS on removable media. Long
filenames. At least until and unless OS/2 gets support for Win95 style
long file names. 

I'm sure someone is going to mention using ZIP or some other archiver.
Many of the files I'm putting on the ZIP disks are things I want
*direct* access to. Not access thru an archiver.


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