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   candycanearter07 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portab   
   06 Feb 25 20:50:35   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  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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