Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:05:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
To: Peter van Sebille <nl41pese AT nlrtdfsc DOT origin DOT nl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenDOS to be released next week!
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On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Peter van Sebille wrote:

> root wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Gene Buckle wrote:
> > 
> > > > ones, (FAT32 yukkk!!, VFAT, NTFS).  A better thing would be to incorporate
> > > > the Linux second extended filesystem into OpenDOS.  That would be cool
> > > > indeed.  Of course it wouldn't work with legacy apps, but some kludging
> > > > could be done about that.
> > > Well Mike, you'll have the source soon enough, so better get to spec'ing
> > > it out. ;)
> > 
> > <grin>  Naw, I'll wait and see what others decide to do.  I'm sure I'll
> > like what comes out whatever it is.
> 
> A year ago I wrote a TSR to transparently mount Linux' ext2fs. Right
> know
> I'm working on a Win 95 FSD to do the same thing. If I'm in a good mood
> I could repeat the trick one more time for OpenDos. I'll think about
> it, seems like fun.
> 
> I'm quite anxious to get a hold on the source, just to see what it is.

Yeah, I'm anxious to get the sources too.  I really like the sound of your
plans!  I think it would be too cool to have Linux long filenames in DOS.
Both for read and write of course.  Only new apps that are ext2fs aware
would be allowed to use the fs routines though.  Also, I think I'd like NO
disk caching going on on those drives in case DOS locks up.  Actually read
caching is ok.  I disable write caching in DOS all the time anyways.

Well, TTYL

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