From:	jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date:	Wed, 5 Feb 1997 00:19:43 -0500 (EST)
To:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
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Subject:	Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
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I was just remembering user areas in cp/m then, see your point though.
Would mount or umount be able to handle tape drives
eventually?  It might make backups and restores go lots faster that way.
On
Tue, 4 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Feb 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
> 
> > Why drive letters in the first place?
> > Drive numbers would allow for more flexibility than drive letters.
> Programs expect drive letters. Making drive numbers would work
> for new programs but would require a hack to work with older
> software.  (Kinda like LFN's)  If we're going to break older
> software, we might as well implement something that isn't a hack.
> This means adding commands like "MOUNT" and "UMOUNT" to dos.  For
> example
> 
> C:\>MD PARTN2
> C:\>MOUNT C:\PARTN2 HDA3: /TYPE=EXT2
> 
> Now that disk is a part of the C: drive.  It works just like the
> old DOS JOIN command, well not exactly, but very similarly.
> 
> It also does away with the drive letter idea and makes things
> much simpler.  Using drive numbers would be worse than switching
> from DOS to VMS!!!!
> 
> I'd much rather type:
> C:\>CD PARTN2
> 
> than
> C:\>SET DEFAULT DISK$USER2:[MIKE.HARRIS]
> (equivalent VMS command)
> 
> OH, by the way, if anyone wants to have a trip down memory lane,
> I've got a program called DCL for DOS that is a port of the VMS
> DCL command interpreter!!  It is freeware and is good for a
> laugh.  You actually *HAVE* to type SET DEFAULT and all those
> lovely 10-mile long vms commands.  SHOW DIRECTORY was it?  or
> just DIRECTORY?  I can't remember.  If anyone wants it, just drop
> me a line and I'll mail it out.  It's pretty small (100k or so).
> 
> 
> > As another example, with linux if you have the right
> > speech synthesizer and emacs running on your system you can
> > also run emacspeak which gives a voice to linux.
> 
> If you have Linux, you can run all of those direct write DOS
> programs under DOSemu and use Linux speech software to do the
> dirty work, or you can telnet to yourself and run DOSemu so that
> the screen is sent serially.  Works for me.
> 
> 
> Oh, by the way, you just quoted about 2 pages of text with your
> reply and didn't refer to any of it. I've noticed that you quote
> a lot in this fashion and it does waste a lot of bandwidth.  I'm
> not saying it to be rude or anything, just wanted to bring it to
> your attention in case you didn't realize.  Does your mailer have
> an option for partial quoting?
> 
> Take care Jude.
> 
> 
> Mike A. Harris        |             http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
> Computer Consultant   |    My webpage has moved and my address has changed.
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> 
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> 
> 


jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>

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