From:	Peter van Sebille <nl41pese AT nlrtdfsc DOT origin DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: OpenDOS to be released next week!
Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:04:31 +0100
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> Yeah, I'm anxious to get the sources too.  I really like the sound of your
> plans!  I think it would be too cool to have Linux long filenames in DOS.
> Both for read and write of course.  Only new apps that are ext2fs aware
> would be allowed to use the fs routines though.  Also, I think I'd like NO
> disk caching going on on those drives in case DOS locks up.  Actually read
> caching is ok.  I disable write caching in DOS all the time anyways.
> 
> Well, TTYL

I'm _very_ much in favour of promoting bash (or whatever Unix-like
shell)
as the default shell and let the shell handle wild card matching. From
my earlier two FSD implementations, I know this _realy_ is a pain.
There are only about 4 or 6 bytes to maintain state for an FSD in
findfirst/
findnext calls. It definitely slows down the development of the FSD!


BTW, any information on OpenDos's stability? 

> 
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