Mail Archives: opendos/1997/01/31/14:48:40
On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, MORRIS JP wrote:
> > > 4.) The behaviour of TAB on the dos prompt is just a TAB. I (and many others)
> > > would prefer the TAB key to do a file search like it does on UNIX.
> > > I was planning to recomile the command.com to do this, but obviously I
> > > can't do that yet...
> > This may prove confusing to long time M$DOS users.
>
> Yes, but NDOS does this (apparently), freedos is/was going to, and TAB isn't
> used on the command prompt anyway. It would probably be optional, like the
> history list.
I think that when the sources are released that COMMAND.COM will come
to resemble a strange (but awesome) mix of 4DOS and bash. Also, just
FYI, NDOS is just an *older* version of 4DOS which was licensed from
JPsoft to Symantec for the Norton Utilities.
> > > 5.) Installable filesystems!! This is NOT urgent, and am I sure most
> > > people
> > > could wait until release 8 or so for this one. Possibly some of the
> > > more advanced IFS modules could be sold commercially by Caldera???
> > What exactly is IFS?
>
> My understanding of IFS is that you are not just stuck with one filesystem, but
> you can optionally add new filesystems (such as FAT32, HPFS etc) without having
> to replace the system kernel. The new filesystems would come in the form of a
> small driver (IFS module) which traps (or directs) all disk writes to the new
> system.
Sounds great to me!
> > If this isn't IFS, how 'bout replacing FAT - perhaps an option for
> > LFN/32 bit PM combined (official wish). As in LINUX...
There's that 'L' word again! :o)
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