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Two Items, One: Does Linus know?, Two: Appleshare over AFS
Hi,
Just yesterday, Linus Torvalds was here at MIT giving a talk. He had
made mention of DOSEMU, Wine, and the iBCS2 compatibility on Linux, but
he did not mention Executor, which I think is close to the level of
DOSEMU in stability. Executor could be a big winner with Linus if it
can run PowerPoint since he did his slides in PowerPoint for Windows
and was complaining having to switch and such and how Wine isn't quite
up to it. Don't know if he gives a lot of talks (don't think he does)
but he could be good publicity.
On a second note, just as a wish, since I am on the internet and I have
AFS, I can access the AFS archive of Mac programs at mac.archive.umich.edu.
They also have a unpacked "natural" version of the archive which can
be "mounted" as an AppleShare volume. It'd be nice if I could be able
to run all of thier shareware/freeware programs directly off there just
to test them out. I don't think that a large portion of your market
quite has the accessibility that we enjoy here so it probably isn't
something you are working on, but separate from the networking, is the
AppleShare "filesystem" format supported? (all these .AppleDouble
directories, seems like if it could look for .AppleDouble/filename
rather than %filename then everything would work fine for me...).
Thanks.
Jesse Hong
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