Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/01/27/13:39:59
> Roman> Hi . I'm using djgpp for a while - it makes my dos quite
> Roman> like UN*X... BUT! I've got fed up with non-casesensitive
> Roman> 13-char MS-DOS file system. The following idea seemed to
> Roman> be obvious to me: why not to write extender for dos to
> Roman> allow faked long case-sens. names: say, you will have
> Roman> hidden spec. file in directory, telling how "UNIX-ish"
> Roman> filename gets mapped to DOS one. Then, some resident
> Roman> program will hack DOS's findfirst - findnext calls. (Of
> Roman> course doing that is complex task, but, no doubt, it is
>
> Sounds like umsdos file system for linux. This file system coexists
> with DOS FAT system and chkdsk doesnt complain. Just need to change
> go32 so that it is umsdos aware, and we can port unix programs with
> very little changes. I just havent gotten around to installing umsdos.
> But its reported capabilities are impressive: hard and soft links 256
> char file name limit with no restrictions on "."s...
>
> Sources may be obtained from sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux/ALPHA/umsdos/.
I don't know what sort of system the original poster wanted, but in my case I
want something like this running in DOS. If I have to install linux to work
this, then I can't use it (ie, I want it specifically in DOS).
From the response, I can't tell whether umsdos is for linux or DOS, but it
seems to say it's for linux. Will someone enlighten me?
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