Mail Archives: opendos/1997/02/05/00:37:30
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.
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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
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>
jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
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