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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:11:38 -0700
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> But you guessed right: Linux doesn't even use the BIOS, it has its own
> hardware-level drivers for just about everything.

thanks. I though that was the case, but wasn't positive. By the DOS
style,
I was thinking more of the attributes vs. permissions sort of thing that
makes chmod and stat a bit difficult to port. Again, I've assumed that
the
Linux permissions are stuffed in the --linux.--- along with the LFN data
under UMSDOS.