Mail Archives: opendos/1997/05/31/03:14:39
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Steven Ehrbar wrote:
> > What is ext2fsOS/2?
>
> Oopss, it's actually called ext2-OS/2
>
> It's a port of the ext2fs and the Linux virtual file system code to
> interface with the OS/2 installable file system manager. Even includes
> utilities to format at ext2fs partition from OS/2.
>
> Due to a misdesign in OS/2, you can't run programs off it in OS/2 without
> disabling case sensitivity. So ext2-OS/2 has an available switch (usually
> specified in OS/2's config.sys) which makes the fs act like HPFS when
> dealing with case (and destroys all but one copy of files differentiated by
> case only in a directory).
Well, thats what we need for OpenDOS! Only since we have source,
we can make the "case sensitivity" work for everything.
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