Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 01:30:52 -0600 (CST) From: "Colin W. Glenn" To: "'OpenDOS newsgroup'" Subject: Re: [opendos-developer] Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote: > > Which INTEND bypasses, it doesn't require the dir entry to really exist on > > the hard drive, it's faked all the way, never exists except in your mind > > as the computer's memory. Unless you think this might cause a problem. > > Yes, because there could be a directory named SOMEDISK allready > with files in it. If you INTEND it, then the directory will be > blotted out of the filesystem until you UNINTEND it. Hmmm, make it smarter? Perhaps to add the 'intended' files to the end of the files which exist, perhaps flagging the 'intended' contents with a leading checkmark?