Message-Id: <199702122217.XAA21626@magigimmix.xs4all.nl> From: "yeep" Cc: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" Subject: Re: [opendos-developer] Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32? Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:31:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk > > I'd love to be able to access a tape drive as a disk, do a DIR and you get > > the volumes, chdir to a volume, dir, and you get the dir's, keep chdir'ing > > until you see the file you want, then copy it out of the tape drive to > > _whereever_ you want the file to reside. The reason I use a tape drive is > > because I packed a _huge_ directory tree containing my ZIP's, and now I > > have to go through two steps to retrieve a file. > > Sure! Why not? Even though I don't have a tape unit, I can see > that as a GREAT benifit to those that do. I don't know. Is it technically possible. 'Coz I think that if it was technically possible, that the tape-software-manufactunerds (hi hi :-) ) would've already done something like that. > Is someone keeping an OpenDOS wishlist together? I'm going to > make one based on my own wishes, and also those of everyone else > in here (an unbiased wishlist that is). Yes, yes, yes, yes, I am, I am, I am, but you already know that, because I can see you replied to my wishlist posting. > If anyone wants to add to the wishlist, please drop me a line. Yeep