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to: Jack Stein
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1999-10-28 21:55:21
subject: Why to use FAT instead of HPFS

 JS> I agree that using an IOMEGA zip disk for one big backup file might be
 JS> smart to use FAT, but other than that, and really small disks like a
 JS> floppy, FAT is just not a good filesystem to use. 

I don't know about yours, but *my* floppy discs hold 120MeB.  Does that still
qualify as "really small" ?  (-:

( And yes, it *would* be nice if IBM were to come out with a version of OS/2
Warp that allowed one to use HPFS on 120MeB floppy discs ... )

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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