Date:	Thu, 31 May 2001 03:11:24 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Travis Siegel <tsiegel AT softcon DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Proposal for new partition type IDs for use with future DOSes
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I don't have a problem with any of this proposal or the info contained in
it.  In fact, I think it would be a very good idea to create some sort of
standard and get to it before microsoft does so that it won't foul it up
afterwords.  However, in the long filename section you suggest using
something similar to 4dos descript.ion files.  Woouldn't something
resembling how unix handles long file names be more appropriate here? I
mean it's been around for years already, everyone knows it works, and
there'd be plenty of support for it already.  Other than that, I
wholeheartedly applaud your initiave (except I'd really like to see
anything with an ascii value less than 33 be illegal in filenames)
However, I don't think I'll garner much support on this front, so treat it
as only a personal wishlist item. :)

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