Re: Sony Memory stick format funnies...

Michael Rothwell (rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us)
Sat, 28 Apr 2001 20:11:57 -0700


From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> "dcim" probably stands for "digital camera images". At least Canon
> digital cameras always put their data in a directory named dcim.

Makes sense. FAT's root directory is limited in the number of entries it can
contain, to something like 32. Cameras can easily produce more than that
number of images.

-M

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