Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:44:53 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos-developer] Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32? 
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, yeep wrote:
> > > I'd love to be able to access a tape drive as a disk, do a DIR and you
> > > until you see the file you want, then copy it out of the tape drive to
> > 
> > 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.

Errr, it's not so much the fact that the TSM's haven't done something like
that, it's just that perhaps I'm the first to voice the need to be able to
do something like this out loud?  The tape hardware isn't that complex,
it's the driver which would have to be complex because it will be
accessing the tape drive in real time instead of the backup/restore
software handling the task.  More than likely it'll have to be one of our
RM/PM DLL drivers, one which doesn't get loaded until you access the tape
drive as a virtual drive.  It then gets loaded and runs the tape drive as
though it was just a dir, hiding the complex nature of accessing the tape.
You'd still have to wait for the driver to do it's work, tapes _are_ _not_
instantaneous access, they are crawl access.

> > If anyone wants to add to the wishlist, please drop me a line.

To be able to run Lunix binaries under OpenDOS.  =)

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