From: Peter van Sebille Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:04:31 +0100 Organization: Origin / Rotterdam Lines: 26 Distribution: world,inet Message-ID: <32E5CA0F.4A52@nlrtdfsc.origin.nl> References: Reply-To: nl41pese AT nlrtdfsc DOT origin DOT nl NNTP-Posting-Host: nwg96.nlnwgfsc.origin.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp > 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 I'm _very_ much in favour of promoting bash (or whatever Unix-like shell) as the default shell and let the shell handle wild card matching. From my earlier two FSD implementations, I know this _realy_ is a pain. There are only about 4 or 6 bytes to maintain state for an FSD in findfirst/ findnext calls. It definitely slows down the development of the FSD! BTW, any information on OpenDos's stability? > -- Peter van Sebille Origin / Nieuwegein BV P.O. BOX 1444, 3430 BK Nieuwegein, The Netherlands phone +31 (0)30 6088 888, fax +31 (0)30 6060 577