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Re: Future (post E 2.0) idea



Brian Knotts (bknotts@europa.com) wrote:
: In <4krbpd$apq@news.snni.com>, fricke@roboben.engr.ucdavis.edu (Tobin Fricke) writes:
: >Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> wrote:
: >
: >>Think of the hFV as a temporary solution.
: >>When they do a native port for Win32, it could use long-filenames, and an 
: >>HFV wouldnt be needed (except maybe the SYSTEM.HFV for booting).
: >>And I believe the same goes for OS/2 ports, if it uses the HPFS in OS/2.
: >>Linux already has long file names, so that problem is solved.
: >>I guess the HFVs are the only solution if you run Executor on MS or PC DOS.
: >>Partitions seem a bit extreme for people who have important data and dont 
: >>want to re-partition and re-format (or take a chance with a part resizer.)
: >
: >HPFS support would require a native OS/2 port (which shouldn't be that
: >hard, IMHO.  Although I suppose that an emulator IS a complex thing)
: >which would be absolutely wonderful.
: >
: >You don't need to have a native Win95 port for long filenames to work
: >in Win95.  There are hooks that DOS applications can use under Win95
: >to access long filenames.  Executor already does this quite well,
: >although the disk access is really slow for me.

: But how would you encode the resource fork on VFAT? AFAIK, there's no
: file type information in VFAT (other than the extension :-)). I think 
: you'd still need a second file. Correct me if I'm wrong; I don't know 
: all that much about VFAT.

: It could be done (although I don't know how easily) with HFPS, because
: the resource fork could be translated into extended attributes.

Isn't there a 64k limit on extended attributes?

: The HFVs work pretty well, though, and I think fixing sound, CDEVs, 
: INITs, font handling, etc. should be higher priorities.

: I hadn't played with Executor since 1.99h (?), and was pleasantly 
: surprised by the improvements. It will finally run under OS/2 on my 
: home machine without crashing every time it's tasked moderately hard.

: With the announcement that they will do an OS/2 port, I think I'm 
: ready to buy Executor.

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: Brian Knotts                Team OS/2              bknotts@europa.com
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