> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> You said:
>> Microsoft grudgingly made the FAT specs public only after everyone
>> had
>> already reverse-engineered it. They certainly HAVE NOT made public
>> their techniques for recovering when it is corrupted!
>>
>> Apple is attempting to deal with someone else's proprietary stuff
>> here.
>
> Your statement was simply wrong...
Then we will have to agree to disagree.
As a software developer of many years, I know that having a
specification for how something is supposed to work is not the same
for what to do when it misbehaves.
For example, if Microsoft says a certain field is supposed to be a
(nominally shortish) string terminated by NULL, and it is actually
two million bytes before a NULL is hit, they may have some
proprietary way of dealing with it, whereas someone writing to the
spec simply has to read all two million characters.
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