Re: Findfirst findnext

From: J French (erewhon_at_nowhere.uk)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:52:09 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:00:44 +0000, Dr John Stockton
<spam@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
<snip>

>No, FAT is not a filesystem; it means File Allocation Table, and is part
>of some filesystems. In particular, it is part of filesystems FAT12,
>FAT16, and (I suppose) FAT32.

>A FAT, as used in those, is a table with one element per cluster; if a
>file uses a cluster, the Table is consulted at that index to find the
>next cluster if any. The directory in those systems is a special file,
>with 32-byte entries for each file; each entry contains the number of
>the first cluster of the file, if any.

Personally I would say that the Directory structure is part of the
specification of a FAT based system

However now we are quibbling.

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