Re: [SLUG] Linux 2.4.x woes

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@xxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "AM" == Andrew Macks <andypoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    AM> StarOffice 5.2 *refuses* to save files on to vfat partitions
    AM> under 2.4.x.  It will save fine on ext2, and other programs
    AM> can still write to vfat without a problem, but when I go to
    AM> save some of my business work, I get a dreaded "General I/O
    AM> error" or some other not-very-helpful Microsoftesque error.

I recall reading a post about that somewhere (maybe linux-kernel) and
it is at root a bug in StarOffice.  The bug in StarOffice only began
to show up when 2.4's VFAT began to be a little stricter about errors
it had previously let slide.

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