To: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz Cc: opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com, opendos AT delorie DOT com References: <199708282333 DOT LAA01942 AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz> Message-Id: Organization: International Brownian Movement From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" Date: Fri, 29 Aug 97 04:45:34 +0300 Subject: Re: Linux fast support with OpenDOS extensions? Lines: 25 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk nuqneH, > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:33:55 +1200 > From: physmsa AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz (Mr M S Aitchison) > Subject: Linux fast support with OpenDOS extensions? > To: opendos-developer AT caldera DOT com, opendos AT delorie DOT com [dd] > I've been looking at the linux code for accessing (v)fat dos > partitions; until long filenames (and the extra time information that > came at the same time), it was relatively easy to modify Linux to > support permissions flags, groups ID's,m and user ID's (and, sort of, > passwords) in a way that is compatible with OpenDOS (well, really > Multiuser DRDOS). Caldera seems to have no intention to release Multiuser DOS. They do not even talk about it and they ignore any questions about Concurrent DOS product family. :( Too bad. --- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Must be a visit from the dead.. _| o |_ | | _|| | / _||_| |_ |_ |_ CU in Hell .......... Arkan#iD |_ o _||_| _||_| / _| | o |_||_||_|