Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 1997 12:54:49 -0600 (MDT) | From | Teunis Peters <> | Subject | Re: FAT/VFAT/FAT32 reimplimintation... |
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On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, James Mastros wrote:
> I'm not going to support umsdos/uvfat (or it will be dead last on my > priority list) because I don't use it. In my view, fatish filesystems > should be used to access data that you need to get to from a non-ext2 > supporting OS, like DOS. I don't know what you meen about uncompressing > arj/zip files (IE what this has to do with uvfat)... and I have never > heard of xdenu (looking it up now...) ahh... "With Xdenu you can easily use > your PC as Xterminal." -- What does this have to do with umsdos/uvfat?
UMSDOS is the _EASIEST_ way to go to Linux from DOeSn't work/WINdoze... And the archives travel as '.zip' or '.arj'. Neither DOS app supports long filenames so any storage method that uses long filenames will break.
It's an in-between filesystem. That's all. [also useful on shared dos/linux volumes where you WANT permissions...]
> Remember that this is not designed to replace the existing > msdos,vfat,umsdos,uvfat... filesystems. This is a learning tool for me, > and it will likely be many months (years, even)... untill this is anything > close to ready to use on a not-ready-to-have-daily-crashes system. I'm not > even going to use it myself for mainstreem stuff, I'm going to register the > "fatish" fs, to avoid any name-clashes...
That nicely solves the UMSDOS problem... <G>. What problem?
Ciao! - Teunis
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