On 6/7/2011 7:50, Invisible wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 03:36 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 6/7/2011 7:08, Invisible wrote:
>>> OK. So it's called a file allocation table rather than a directory
>>> listing. Same difference.
>>
>> Um, no. These are two entirely different things.
>
> In what way?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT_file_system#Design

In the same way that a linked list is an entirely different thing from a 
hashtable.

> Ah, now *that* I would expect to fail, yes. And, indeed, one of our other
> programs *does* fail on Windows XP because it actually tries to overwrite
> SERIAL.SYS with its own customised version...

That's another example.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    driving without turn signals."

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