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+config FAT_FS
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+ tristate
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+ select NLS
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+ help
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+ If you want to use one of the FAT-based file systems (the MS-DOS and
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+ VFAT (Windows 95) file systems), then you must say Y or M here
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+ to include FAT support. You will then be able to mount partitions or
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+ diskettes with FAT-based file systems and transparently access the
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+ files on them, i.e. MSDOS files will look and behave just like all
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+ other Unix files.
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+
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+ This FAT support is not a file system in itself, it only provides
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+ the foundation for the other file systems. You will have to say Y or
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+ M to at least one of "MSDOS fs support" or "VFAT fs support" in
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+ order to make use of it.
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+
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+ Another way to read and write MSDOS floppies and hard drive
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+ partitions from within Linux (but not transparently) is with the
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+ mtools ("man mtools") program suite. You don't need to say Y here in
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+ order to do that.
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+
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+ If you need to move large files on floppies between a DOS and a
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+ Linux box, say Y here, mount the floppy under Linux with an MSDOS
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+ file system and use GNU tar's M option. GNU tar is a program
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+ available for Unix and DOS ("man tar" or "info tar").
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+
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+ The FAT support will enlarge your kernel by about 37 KB. If unsure,
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+ say Y.
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+
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+ To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
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+ fat. Note that if you compile the FAT support as a module, you
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+ cannot compile any of the FAT-based file systems into the kernel
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+ -- they will have to be modules as well.
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+
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+config MSDOS_FS
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+ tristate "MSDOS fs support"
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+ select FAT_FS
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+ help
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+ This allows you to mount MSDOS partitions of your hard drive (unless
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+ they are compressed; to access compressed MSDOS partitions under
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+ Linux, you can either use the DOS emulator DOSEMU, described in the
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+ DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from
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+ <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, or try dmsdosfs in
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+ <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs/>. If you
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+ intend to use dosemu with a non-compressed MSDOS partition, say Y
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+ here) and MSDOS floppies. This means that file access becomes
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+ transparent, i.e. the MSDOS files look and behave just like all
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+ other Unix files.
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+
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+ If you have Windows 95 or Windows NT installed on your MSDOS
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+ partitions, you should use the VFAT file system (say Y to "VFAT fs
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+ support" below), or you will not be able to see the long filenames
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+ generated by Windows 95 / Windows NT.
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+
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+ This option will enlarge your kernel by about 7 KB. If unsure,
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+ answer Y. This will only work if you said Y to "DOS FAT fs support"
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+ as well. To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will
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+ be called msdos.
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+
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+config VFAT_FS
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+ tristate "VFAT (Windows-95) fs support"
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+ select FAT_FS
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+ help
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+ This option provides support for normal Windows file systems with
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+ long filenames. That includes non-compressed FAT-based file systems
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+ used by Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, and the Unix
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+ programs from the mtools package.
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+
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+ The VFAT support enlarges your kernel by about 10 KB and it only
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+ works if you said Y to the "DOS FAT fs support" above. Please read
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+ the file <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for details. If
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+ unsure, say Y.
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+
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+ To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be called
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+ vfat.
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+
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+config FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
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+ int "Default codepage for FAT"
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+ depends on MSDOS_FS || VFAT_FS
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+ default 437
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+ help
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+ This option should be set to the codepage of your FAT filesystems.
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+ It can be overridden with the "codepage" mount option.
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+ See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
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+
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+config FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
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+ string "Default iocharset for FAT"
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+ depends on VFAT_FS
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+ default "iso8859-1"
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+ help
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+ Set this to the default input/output character set you'd
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+ like FAT to use. It should probably match the character set
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+ that most of your FAT filesystems use, and can be overridden
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+ with the "iocharset" mount option for FAT filesystems.
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+ Note that "utf8" is not recommended for FAT filesystems.
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+ If unsure, you shouldn't set "utf8" here.
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+ See <file:Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt> for more information.
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