On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > ... My guess is that this particular patent is just to increase the > # of patents that M$ currently holds - and that is all that is > needed. i'm not sure i agree. as a previous poster mentioned, a patent on the long names featurs of FAT has the potential to impact a lot of handheld/digital/personal devices -- PDAs, digital cameras, etc. rday