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- > >> >it'd be nice to be able to use ados floppies on e.g. a pc... 8-)
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- Nice maybe, but too much work for too little gain.
- Why not just use the DOS filesystem on the Amiga?
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- Yes, DOS FS sucks, but do you really want to spend your time programming
- an Amiga FS for a DOS system? You would most likely run into DOS limitations
- and have to braindamage it anyway. For example in PC NFS, can use NFS mounted
- filesystems that have > 8 char names, but it has to translate them into
- 8 char names before giving them to DOS. You end up typing even more
- cryptic filenames because of the uniqueness algorithm used to turn
- >8 into 8 char names. So even if the AmigaDOS filesystem is better,
- running it on a DOS system doesn't mean you can escape DOS's limitations.
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- Although we hate to admit it the MSDOS file system is the most standard
- filesystem around. Almost everyone supports mounting MSDOS floppies.
- Just to name a few: AmigaDos, AppleDos, Atari's TOS, any many versions of
- Unix.
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- > It might be possible to have a 720k sized Amiga filesystem, but it would require a funky
- > mountlist to be able to read it under AmigaDOS.
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- So what does this buy you - a new Amiga filesystem, one that isn't used
- by your floppy collection (it doesn't help you move the floppies you already
- have), requires someone write MSDOS code to implement - and install on all
- the PC's you use, then you can create some new floppies on your amiga
- that can be used on the MSDOS system. Note the size of the floppies
- would be different, so you couldn't just copy a 880K AmigaDos Floppy to the
- 720K NewAmigaDos Floppy - you have to break up the files.
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- Why bother, you have access to a MSDOS filesystem for AmigaDOS,
- just use it to create MSDOS disks in the first place - it a lot easier.
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- What does this have to do with NetBSD anyway?
- Does it support MSDOS floppies - Any Floppies?
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- Greg Jones
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