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From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org>
Subject: Re: Is there support of VFAT?
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Benjamin Lim wrote:
> 
> Tong Kiat wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > could anyone tell me if FreeBSD support VFAT.  When I connect to my
> > extended dos partition it could only see the 8.3 format
> >
> > thanks
> > tong kiat
> 
> There is no VFAT support at this time, maybe in later relesses..

Someone ought to steal it from Linsux (or create a Linux-VFAT loadable
module/kernel patch that you could get, and it would be legal since it
would say it got it from Linsux).
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