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   mutazilah@gmail.com to s_dubrovich@yahoo.com   
   Re: Booting from FAT16   
   19 Dec 21 21:31:49   
   
   From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, December 20, 2021 at 3:54:44 PM UTC+11, s_dubrovich@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   > I don't support fat, nor LFN, LFN is covered by ms patents,   
   > so I dropped my work on it.   
      
   Patents only last 20 years, so LFN should be free from   
   any patents, if you wanted to restart work on it.   
      
   Note that I have public domain FAT code, including LFN   
   support (provided by someone else) available here:   
      
   https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/src/fat.c   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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