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Subject: Re: vfat patch for shortcut display as symlinks for 2.4.18
From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
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On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 18:58, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > That's not any different than having seperate VFAT and ext2
> > partitions in a standard dual-boot situation.
> 
> Sure. That obviously sucks; Linux can do better.
> It's important to make a transition to Linux as
> painless as possible. Nobody considering an OS
> change likes the feeling that their data files
> are trapped on one side or the other.

Huh? Windows can access files on VFAT and Linux can access files on
VFAT. How are they "trapped"?

- Nicholas

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