From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 05:01:25 -0500 (EST)
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To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32
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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> > > or, another solutin which I saw in some FAT FS extension a few years ago,
> > > to use the unused dirent space to store more letters for filename.
> > 
> > Sure, and why not add support to go beyond 26 drive letters as
> > well.  I've allways found that to be too limiting.  How about
> > something like this:
> > 
> > SYS$DISKDRIVENUMBER1:[UTILS\NORTON]>
> > 
> > That would be cool!
> Hmm.. certainly, but why not to stay at what average DOS user is used to - 
> drive letters? Just use two-letter codes when needed (AA, AB, AC). Well, it 
> might be a little confusing, but from my experience I know that people are 
> more afraid of digits than letters (and we can't forget that the system is 
> very likely to be used by complete newbies /to be gentle ;-))/)

I was joking.  :o)  I don't think more drive letters are needed
for any reason at all as long as the MOUNT utility is made
available in DOS.  Drive letters like "AA:" wouldn't be
compatible with existing software anyways, and how would you hack
it so that they _would_ work?  It would be really messy.  By the
way, my SYS$WHATEVER example above was a joke too.  It was a kick
at VMS.

> > Then to go to the next drive you would type:
> > 
> > SYS$DISKDRIVENUMBER1:[UTILS\NORTON]> SYS$DISKDRIVENUMBER2:
> Or 'AB' ;-)

Sounds like it is prone to a lot of problems to me.


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