Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 07:27:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
cc: evand AT scn DOT org, OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] FSSTND
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On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:

> That would work, except that tags are not to indicate anything other
> than type.
> That's why [os:opendos] [os:linux].
> Now, [os:app:linux] would work.
> On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Evan Dickinson
> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
> > 
> > > should probably be [os-opendos] [os-linux]
> > > type tags in paths.dir file too.
> > 
> > How about something like this:
> > 
> > [opendos:app]
> > c:\dosapp
> > 
> > [linux:app]
> > /usr/bin

I'm having great difficulty understanding why and/or how Linux
has any place in an OpenDOS standard.  Am I the only one?  Or has
someone written a magical "LinuxEMU" for OpenDOS?  And you have
to install your Linux apps into FAT drives and put a path into
the OPENDOS PATH file? 

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