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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 20:39:41 +0100
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Once upon a time (on  2 Feb 97 at 10:25) Ian 'DrDebug' Day said:

> Couldn't have said it better myself.
> 
> And since the source for Linux is available, them I'm sure someone can
> add the support.
You bet!

> Just one provision:  Make it an IFS, rather than fixed in, so you can
To make things clear: by saing IFS do we refer to the way the driver is 
installed or rather to the M$ standard of drivers?

> (optionally ;-) add whichever file systems you want.  By default, the
> kernel (IBMBIO/IBMDOS) would load up the equivelant of:
> 
>    IFS=C:\OpenDOS\FAT.IFS
Or just a mount/umout utility to do that.

> Oh, and please; whoever does this, can we keep the low memory usage down to
> an absolute friggin' minimum, and stick it in EMS/XMS?  ;-)
With DPMS it is possible to write a driver that'll work entirely in PMode and 
will reside in the XMS - is that all right with you? ;-)

> Also, native support of the INT 21/71 functions which allow DOS apps to use
> the long filenames.  Unfortunately, under Win95, these only work when
That's a must! I can't imagine any other way to do that. If we add the 
support, let's make it better than M$ did, am I right?

> Windows is loaded....  What were M$ thinking?  <g>   No, don't tell me. 
> They want you to use the Win95 DOS shell, rather than DOS 7.00, and since
When you use the GUI you're still in DOS anyway...

> they all know that long filenames are long overdue we'd all want to use
> them..... bla bla bla...  SAD!
...but true

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