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flueterflam · 01-10-2013, 01:25 AM

Ok, I understand why. But Windows 95 is unsupported and very obsolete now. As far as FAT32 devices, don't most OSes also allow the exFAT format also, which does not have this limitation? Furthermore, according to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFAT#VFAT

Non VFAT-enabled operating systems can still access the files under their short file name alias without restrictions, however, the associated long file names may get lost, when files with long file names are copied under non VFAT-aware operating systems.

This seems acceptable to me. The rare time that I might used a USB drive/SD card in an OS which doesn't support "+", it would fall back to the short file name, which could have this restriction retained. It would remove the limitation of disallowing "+", which seems to be allowed in all other file formats and OSes for filenames.

01-10-2013, 01:25 AM	#7
flueterflam Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2013 Device: none	Ok, I understand why. But Windows 95 is unsupported and very obsolete now. As far as FAT32 devices, don't most OSes also allow the exFAT format also, which does not have this limitation? Furthermore, according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFAT#VFAT Non VFAT-enabled operating systems can still access the files under their short file name alias without restrictions, however, the associated long file names may get lost, when files with long file names are copied under non VFAT-aware operating systems. This seems acceptable to me. The rare time that I might used a USB drive/SD card in an OS which doesn't support "+", it would fall back to the short file name, which could have this restriction retained. It would remove the limitation of disallowing "+", which seems to be allowed in all other file formats and OSes for filenames.