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- From: dhevey@adsweb.com (Dan Hevey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: UAE can't run files from msdos partition?
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 21:52:30 GMT
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- References: <3151eb2a.26834047@news.srv.ualberta.ca>
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- In article <3151eb2a.26834047@news.srv.ualberta.ca>,
- dyakiela@per.ualberta.ca (Don Yakielashek) wrote:
- > I have been playing around with UAE and am have naughty ideas of
- >running it on every computer on our network in order to get back for
- >all the abuse I got for praising the amiga. But, I'll be nice.
- >
- >Anyway, how does one make make files stored on the msdos partition
- >executable. From reading the Unix UAE docs you must set the execute
- >attribute either from the amiga side or from unix. Trying this with
- >the Msdos UAE doesn't work. I'm assuming tha the emulater simply
- >passes the attribute down to the host filesystem and since msdos does
- >not have a execute bit it fails.
- >
- >Is this simply not working in this version yet?
- >
-
- AFAIK, MSdos hard drive partitions can not be written to by the MSdos version
- of UAE. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get hard drive container files
- working either.
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-