Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:32:40 +1300
From:	physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
Subject:	Re: disk devices (was ls, killing disk 0)
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Message-id:	<199710202032.JAA19004@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>

> > This character file, is only usable in OS/2.
> > Just as /dev/hda1 is only usable in a Unix.
> > This is OS-dependend.
> > DOS doesn't have these kind of files.
> 
> Maybe it's a good idea to implement it?

There aren't a lot of good reasons to implement "raw" disk device files
like unix, since it risks people destroying things and most of the
benfits are available via IO controil reads/writes that is already a
feature of DOS.  A read-only subset of the OS/2 notion might be
something though.

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