Date: 5 May 1997 16:52:20 -0000
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From: b52g AT usa DOT net (JP Morris)
Subject: Re: BIG suggestion for Opendos Features
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>On Thu, 1 May 1997, Positronic Cat + DataHawk wrote:
>
>> One of the things that bothered me about normal dos, opendos, win95 and
>> such is that there are no drivers to access the Linux ext2 file system.
>> That filesystem is faster and more efficient, and would make a great
>> addition to Opendos as a driver so that people who use MSdos or W95 could
>> still use it.  Dos drivers are something I've never gotten into, but I'm
>> sure people on this list would be knowledgable about it.
>
>We've discussed this quite a bit on the list allready, and I'm
>sure that before too long ext2 will be a natural progression
>under OD.
>
><DROOL>
>Native ext2 with symlinks, hardlinks, case sensitivity, self
>defragmentation, speed, permissions, uid's/gid's, etc...

Don't overwhelm the poor users with too much complexity.
As for UNIX permissions, either we inhert the unpleasant
CHMOD with its 3-levels of security that force the user
to think in octal, or we invent some really twisted abbreviations.
I thought the trend was to make things friendlier.

Personally I'd be happy to stick with RASH.

Also, I've yet to see a unix that can undelete files.
One of the things I love about DRDOS and OpenDOS is the kickass
undelete program that is menu driven and doesn't lose the first
letter of the filename.


></DROOL>
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