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Subject: Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portable memory using Windows & Android editors
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 20:50:35 -0000 (UTC)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 00:16 this Thursday (GMT):
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 14:26:23 -0500, Paul wrote:
>
>> There have been cases made by Microsoft, where in the documentation it
>> would claim a certain thing would only work on NTFS. And then an
>> external dev would turn around and make it work on FAT32.
>
> Here’s one big one: every time I point out the old “Microsoft thinks 26 
> drive letters ought to be enough for anybody” limitation, someone tries to 
> claim that Windows lets you use mount points instead of drive letters, 
> *nix-style. But then it turns out that mount points are an NTFS-specific 
> feature, that don’t work with other filesystems.


I remember them being not worth the effort to do, since you had to do it
every time you plugged in the drive. Then again, I haven't used Windows
in a while, so I might be misremembering.
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