Mail Archives: opendos/1997/04/18/06:00:53
At 12:20 AM 18/04/97 -0400, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Alaric B. Williams wrote:
>
>> > I think we should have a system for installing File systems. MSCDEX has
>> > some funny scheme for using installable file systems, how it works I dont
>> > know, but I think it overrides most of int 21h to do it.
>>
>> Already been pointed out... we want a mounting system, definitely!
>
>Being the excessive kind of person I am, can we have single-rooted too?
>;-) Both the cake *and* the icing! Or at least being able to mount a
>drive into another drive's directory, like a pseudo-single-root. That
>would help a lot for system administration of things like BBSes and web
>sites, where you see you have too much stuff on a drive, buy another, have
>to change all references from D: to E:... In all the 6,342 places.
I'm not sure I understand what your saying but... I like the system of
having one large directory tree... it's nice & neat... but it gets annoying
when you have to copy files from /usr/local/lib/src/proggie/proggie.tgz to
~ftp/pub/linux/source/proggie/latest/ and gets even worse when you have
multiple files that are all in the wrong places :) Having C:\ and D:\ and
E:\ all point to the same place would be great, you could cd
C:\usr/local/lib/src etc, have D: point to your ftp site etc... Although I
spose you can almost do this with assign/subst/join....
While I'm here I'd like to put in a comment for adding functionality to
Command.com (hmm http://command.com/ isn't taken, someone want to register
it for caldera/opendos?), I love the extra functionality 4dos allows, but
unfortunately I don't spend so much time in dos... For Opendos to have Batch
scripting of a level at least partially that of 4dos you would have a very
powerfull language. I don't like the way Microsoft has dumbed Command.com
down to the level of intolerable idiocy in its latest operating systems.
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