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Re: FW: Let's get System 7.x on top!



In article <4l6h4s$6pu@news.snni.com>,
Tobin Fricke <fricke@roboben.engr.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>"Dan Guisinger" <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>
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>> Here I'll explain the reasons for a port to Win95/NT and OS/2.
>> (Note, I don't use OS/2, and don't know how easy the features that 
>> windows can handle can be put into OS/2 since they aren't designed the 
>> same since 1991)
>
>> 1) IFS	--	Windows 95 and NT 4.0 (Not sure about 3.51) use an 
>> Installable File System.  This was, ALL programs can read from Mac disks.
>
>Windows95 uses a poor and incomplete implementation of IFS.  I am not
>sure about Windows NT, but I believe that you are correct about it.
>

the only problem is that microsloth has still not released the necessary
documentation and DDK material necessary to create an IFS for windowsNT.

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________________________________________________________________________
 Michael Gile                        |               Graduate Assistant
 gilem@rpi.edu                       |   Computer & Systems Engineering
                                     | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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