From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 6 13:44:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA22753 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 13:44:09 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA22746 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 13:44:06 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA00692; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 13:38:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509062038.NAA00692@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Help! Boot manager gone after Windows95 To: terryl@CS.Stanford.EDU (Terry Lee) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 13:38:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Terry Lee" at Sep 6, 95 12:30:08 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 775 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > P.S. Does Windows95 have a new file system or did they just hack the old > one? Yes. 8-). The VFAT as essentially the same layout, but has been hacked to support long names and rewritten as necessary to enable caching (using the new VCACHE.VXD). The long name hack is a normal FAT entry followed by as many FAT entries as necessary to represent the long name, using the same start cluster # and having the system/hidden/volume_label attributes set on each entry. The entries must be adjacent in the FAT, and are stored in 16 bit characters (Unicode, or more properly, ISO 10646 page 0 -- 10646 is normally encoded as 32 bits). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.