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2009/11/28 Charles D. Russell:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> =C2=A0I dislike FAT32 a lot, so I usually
>>
>> never test on it.
>
> But there is no alternative for external storage that is to be readable on
> Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. =C2=A0And I use Cygwin scripts for all my ba=
ckups
> and housekeeping.

Corinna's remark doesn't mean that FAT32 is going to be dropped. It
does mean that others will need to do most of the testing, which is
exactly what's happening.

Andy

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