From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:29:31 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca To: MORRIS JP cc: jamesl AT albany DOT net, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist In-Reply-To: <199701291450.OAA21126@milly> Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, MORRIS JP wrote: > > > 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... > > This may prove confusing to long time M$DOS users. > > Yes, but NDOS does this (apparently), freedos is/was going to, and TAB isn't > used on the command prompt anyway. It would probably be optional, like the > history list. I think that when the sources are released that COMMAND.COM will come to resemble a strange (but awesome) mix of 4DOS and bash. Also, just FYI, NDOS is just an *older* version of 4DOS which was licensed from JPsoft to Symantec for the Norton Utilities. > > > 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??? > > What exactly is IFS? > > My understanding of IFS is that you are not just stuck with one filesystem, but > you can optionally add new filesystems (such as FAT32, HPFS etc) without having > to replace the system kernel. The new filesystems would come in the form of a > small driver (IFS module) which traps (or directs) all disk writes to the new > system. Sounds great to me! > > If this isn't IFS, how 'bout replacing FAT - perhaps an option for > > LFN/32 bit PM combined (official wish). As in LINUX... There's that 'L' word again! :o) Mike A. Harris | http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris Computer Consultant | My webpage has moved and my address has changed. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca Want the DR-DOS source code? Visit Caldera's website: www.caldera.com