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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To: <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>, <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: 32bit BIOS
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 00:26:34 +0100
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> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Yeep wrote:
> > Some guy posted something about why the bios creators (Award, AMI) 
> > don't create 32bit bioses.
> I cannot remember that thread, but anyway:
> 
> Since 286+, (small) parts of the BIOS are written for Protected Mode,
> mainly for mode switching... (you meant Protected Mode code by '32bit 
> BIOS', didn't you?).

Yes

[big snip]

> Imagine a special utility running in a 'hidden' backround domain 
> and shelling original PKZIP, ARJ, etc. with different options to 
> compress/decompress/list files from archives, that are mounted in 
> the file system in the 'visible' domains.  Think of going in a .ZIP 
> archive using something like UNC-syntax, and also of the usage of 
> URLs:
> 
> An example:
> 
>  c:\>pkzip test.zip *.* -ex
>  c:\>CD C:\\TEST.ZIP\                          mounting PKZIP in the
>  c:\\test.zip\>EDIT config.sys                 background domain
>  c:\\test.zip\>MD backups  
>  c:\\test.zip\>COPY config.sys .\backups\config.sys
>  c:\\test.zip\>CD..
>  c:\>COPY c:\\test.zip\backups\config.sys c:\config.bak
>  c:\>COPY c:\\test.zip\config.sys ftp://ftp.caldera.com/serv/incoming
>                                                running FTP in the 
>                                                background

This would be cool, though I'm already capable of doing so in Norton
Comnmander 5.0.
BTW does Midnight Commander support such a feature?
 
> Ok, I think, that's enough to have you cracks some nice dreams 
> over this spring weekend... ;-)

Thanks for ruining my weekend.
No I got all this input to process. :-)

	Yeep