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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:06:06 +0200
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Subject: Re: DOSEMU and LFN
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On 10 Jan 2002 at 11:58, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> > Unfortunatelly it seems to look rather grave:
> 
> It's extremely grave.  It doesn't work at all.  It's just the
> framework.  I thought I mentioned that in the first post...
> 
> > The only way to mount something not through mfs.c seems
> > to be mounting hard disk image (or real partition) in DOSEMU.
> 
> There's a helper interrupt that dosemu provides for plugins.  It's int
> 0xe6.  The TSR traps int 0x21 and calls 0xe6 that so the plugin (which
> is in linux ELF code) gets control.  The plugin emulates all the int
> 0x21 calls directly - it doesn't use lredir, mfs, or the net
> redirector.
> 

Only a wild guess. Maybe it's possible to extend a redirector 
( src/dosext/mfs/ ) to handle also LFN functions.

Andris