Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/02/17:51:48
Once upon a time (on 2 Feb 97 at 10:25) Ian 'DrDebug' Day said:
> Couldn't have said it better myself.
>
> And since the source for Linux is available, them I'm sure someone can
> add the support.
You bet!
> Just one provision: Make it an IFS, rather than fixed in, so you can
To make things clear: by saing IFS do we refer to the way the driver is
installed or rather to the M$ standard of drivers?
> (optionally ;-) add whichever file systems you want. By default, the
> kernel (IBMBIO/IBMDOS) would load up the equivelant of:
>
> IFS=C:\OpenDOS\FAT.IFS
Or just a mount/umout utility to do that.
> Oh, and please; whoever does this, can we keep the low memory usage down to
> an absolute friggin' minimum, and stick it in EMS/XMS? ;-)
With DPMS it is possible to write a driver that'll work entirely in PMode and
will reside in the XMS - is that all right with you? ;-)
> Also, native support of the INT 21/71 functions which allow DOS apps to use
> the long filenames. Unfortunately, under Win95, these only work when
That's a must! I can't imagine any other way to do that. If we add the
support, let's make it better than M$ did, am I right?
> Windows is loaded.... What were M$ thinking? <g> No, don't tell me.
> They want you to use the Win95 DOS shell, rather than DOS 7.00, and since
When you use the GUI you're still in DOS anyway...
> they all know that long filenames are long overdue we'd all want to use
> them..... bla bla bla... SAD!
...but true
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