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Rob Hurle wrote:
>
>
>   Thanks for your comments too, about use of the FAT32 file system.  I
> had thought about that, but the NTFS seemed to be a bit more universal
> - I'm not sure that FAT file systems are recognised by default on Macs
> (for example).
>
>   
FAT (and almost to the same extent, FAT32) are widely recognizable:
FreeBSD, Windows, Linux, OS X.
The most important limitation though is maximum file size (<=4GB).
Depending on your usage, FAT32 may or may not be appropriate because of
this.