From: leathm AT solwarra DOT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au (Leath Muller)
Message-Id: <199701300030.KAA10234@solwarra.gbrmpa.gov.au>
Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist
To: jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk (MORRIS JP)
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 10:30:10 +1000 (EST)
Cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net, jamesl AT albany DOT net, jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk
In-Reply-To: <199701291158.LAA22999@milly> from "MORRIS JP" at Jan 29, 97 11:58:00 am
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> 1.)  EMM386 bugs should be investigated/fixed.
> 
> 2.) A boot manager would be nice... lessons could be learned from OS/2 bootmgr.
> 
> 3.)  For some reason key 7 on the numeric keypad is NOT sending out a 7, but
>      all the other keys work fine.  This may just be me, and I have not checked
>      thoroughly to find out what 7 IS sending.
>      I simply noticed my characters wouldn't go NW in Ultima 6...
> 
> 4.)  The behaviour of TAB on the dos prompt is just a TAB.  I (and many others)
>      would prefer the TAB key to do a file search like it does on UNIX.
>      I was planning to recomile the command.com to do this, but obviously I
>      can't do that yet...
> 
> 5.)  Installable filesystems!!  This is NOT urgent, and am I sure most people
>      could wait until release 8 or so for this one.  Possibly some of the more
>      advanced IFS modules could be sold commercially by Caldera???
> 
> That's all for now.. can anyone else add to this list?

How about having OpenDOS boot up _without_ having to do _anything_ to any
of the boot sectors of the drive. Much like Linux with UMSDOS. I would
much rather be able to boot OpenDOS after I have booted normal DOS for
eg. (mainly because I am not going to reinstall 4 other OS's as well
as OpenDOS... :)

Leathal.