AVR-Chat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernd Felsche" <bernie@innovative.iinet.net.au>

> 
> These are the Patents which Microsoft cite further down the page.
> I've take the liberty of providing the dates and the titles of the
> Patents, as per www.uspto.gov
> 
> 5,579,517 November 26, 1996
> Common name space for long and short filenames
> 
> 5,745,902 April 28, 1998 
> Method and system for accessing a file using file names
> having different file name formats
> 
> 5,758,352 May 26, 1998 
> Common name space for long and short filenames
> 
> 6,286,013 September 4, 2001 
> Method and system for providing a common name space for long
> and short file names in an operating system


Would this mean that as I'm using only short names in the FAT filesystems
in my MP3 players, I'm not affected by this ?
Anyway, at $0.25 per unit, they wouldn't get much more than enough for 
a few cups of coffee ;-)

/Jesper