On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 02:14:28AM -0400, Charles Craft wrote:

> This is troubling as well. Any PIC application that accesses a CF card
> needs to license the FAT from Microsoft?

Not exactly. FAT itself isn't patented, but the file name munging required to
fit long filenames under the standard 8.3 filename format is. Here's a post
that clarifies that point:

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200312/msg00150.html

So PIC projects are most probably not going to be subject to it.

BAJ

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