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Re: OS/2 port, was Re: Win32 Port



>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph LoCicero IV <jolo@jaguar.ece.cmu.edu> writes:
In article <4rcakf$sha@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> jolo@jaguar.ece.cmu.edu (Joseph LoCicero IV) writes:


    Cliff> Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote: We'll use
    Cliff> whatever we officially should use to access raw CD-ROM :
    Cliff> sectors in win32.  I haven't looked into it enough to know
    Cliff> that it's CDFS, but it definitely isn't MSCDEX.

    Joseph> Cliff:

    Joseph> 	There has been a recent posting to
    Joseph> comp.os.os2.announce which states that HFS is being ported
    Joseph> to OS/2 (it's currently in wide beta test).  I assume that
    Joseph> using this device driver for your purposes would prevent
    Joseph> you having to muck around with low level stuff for the
    Joseph> OS/2 port.

Yes and no.  If it provides every piece of functionality that a Mac
program might need, yes, we would use it.  Most likely, though it
would only provide some of what we need, in which case we'd need to
augment it.  We wouldn't mind contributing our HFS code to such an
effort.  We've already discussed doing that on the Linux side of
things.

    Joseph> 	Is there a similar effort for Win32?  It would sure
    Joseph> save you guys some time...perhaps enough time to port
    Joseph> Executor to OS/2?  :)

I don't know if there are yet similar stuff for Win32, but again, we'd
be willing to contribute our code.  Actually, our hope with the Linux
work is to make one set of code that can be compiled a number of
different ways so that the same core code would be used for an OS/2
IFS ans a Win32 IFS as for a Linux kernel module and a library for end
users.

    Joseph> l8r, -- - Joseph LoCicero, IV | Grey is not the color I
    Joseph> expected - - jolo@ece.cmu.edu | On someone who's so often
    Joseph> touched by grace - - Think smarter, not harder | The eyes
    Joseph> that hold the promise of perfection - - Team OS/2--Use
    Joseph> Warp!  | Will find the flaw that no one can erase...  -

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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