Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 13:59:48 +0100
From: Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: LFN-support/changes to on kernel
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On Mon, 07 Jul 1997, Martin G. Pircher wrote:

> > It is Win95 compatible at both the API and physical disk levels. 
> > It supports all Int 21h 71xx long name extensions. 
Great!

> When Caldera releases the sources to the new kernel with
> their changes (will they?) we should think _now_ on bringing it together
> with Matthias changes sometimes, otherwise we have 2 totally
> different version, and there's a lot of work to bring them together!
> 
> Maybe there's a way that Matthias version could be easily implemented
> in the Caldera's one?
I hope so (but vice versa)... ;-)

Well, as announced I'm mainly working on IBMBIO.COM which does 
not affect LFN support very much (except some new possible 
CONFIG.SYS directives).  Though there are literally hundreds 
of changes in 'my' IBMBIO.COM, I think, at present we won't 
have many problems to put LFN support into it, if it actually
would affect IBMBIO.COM.  I'll check this up with Caldera.

> I haven't tried now, but if i can use the command.com now as 
> Win95 DOS box, it seems COD is moving toward Win95 compatibility. 
Yup.  The new IBMBIO.COM also has alot of enhancements in direction 
Win95.

> Has anyone already tried to use it instead of DOS7?
Not yet, but someday we'll get there...  But we won't stop there.
I'm sure.

 Matthias

PS1. The binary alpha version of IBMBIO.COM should show up this week.
     Sources will come later, since I would like to complete some
     of the features, I started to implement - but unfortunately 
     have very little time at the moment.  Also, some features 
     need some more testage. You won't get lucky with interim 
     sources, will you?
     
PS2. Anybody knowing what's going on with the 'Weekly digests'?  
     I have temporary switched over to them because of my other 
     work load, but I haven't received any digests for more than
     a week now...  Hope, not to loose your contributions (but - 
     no - please don't CC: me...)
     
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