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- M E S S Y D O S F I L E S Y S T E M H A N D L E R
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- by Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert 05-Jun-1990
-
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- MSH is (C) Copyright 1989,1990 by Olaf Seibert. All rights reserved.
- Freely distributable, except that it may not be distributed for profit
- without permission from the author. Hereby, Fred Fish explicitly gets
- permission to include MSH in his library of freely distributable Amiga
- software.
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-
- This is patch #3 to MSH release #1.
-
- Bug fixed:
- - device: The IBM disk format seems to have an index mark $5224/$5552
- before the first sector, even though the machines I tested it with
- did not seem to miss it.
-
- Inconvenience removed:
- - MSH: no longer produces read error requestors when the bootblock of a
- newly inserted disk cannot be read. The disk is silently ignored.
-
- Feature added:
- - MSH: is now more polite to some DFx: that uses the same physical
- drive.
-
- Misc:
- - Reduced stack size of messydisk.device task (2K -> 1K) and of the
- filesystem itself (4K -> 3K). Xoper shows that (most of the time)
- no more than half of these stacks seems to be used.
-
- Reminder:
- If you like the program, feel free to send me some $$, or even $$$ if
- you feel like it. All shareware resellers (and especially those in
- Germany) are reminded that they are NOT allowed to make any profit off
- my work. Resellers are considered to make an illegal profit if they
- charge more for a disk than Fred Fish does. Those resellers do NOT have
- a licence to use or copy MSH. Also, if you distribute MSH:, you must
- distribute it in its entirety: you are not allowed to leave parts out.
-
- ====05-May-1990=====About patch #2a-2c=========================================
-
- There have been many 'patch 2' versions. Therefore, I bumped the
- version number after I cleaned up the distribution, so that a consistent
- version number is possible.
-
- ====11-Mar-1990=====From patch #1==============================================
-
- This is patch #1 to MSH release #1. It consists of all binaries and
- documentation. There are replacement source files, and a patch file for the
- others.
-
- Bugs fixed:
- - device: I/O could be done during CloseDevice(). Trackdisk does not
- seem to do this, and was implemented incorrectly anyhow.
- - handler: Examine() of the root directory got a . afther the 8th
- character of the volume name
-
- Inconvenience removed:
- - handler: The AmigaDOS 1.3 List and Dir commands thought that all
- files were directories.
-
- Features added:
- - handler: Now uses the Reserved entry in the Mountlist. You should
- normally set this to 0.
- - MSH::F+ and MSH::F-.
- - messyfmt: You can now write just the bootblock. The disk must
- already be formatted.
- - device: you can now, with some care, format disks with less than 8
- sectors per track.
-
- ====11-Feb-1990=====From release #1============================================
-
- This is the first really public release of the MessyFileSystem, or MSH
- for short. It has circulated among a small audience, and I entered it in a
- programming contest held by the German 'Amiga-Magazin'. They were too dumb
- to let me win or offer me a contract, so here goes their opportunity to
- make some money. Not mine, however, since I am going to try the sh*r*ware
- concept. So, if you like the program, feel free to send me some $$, or even
- $$$ if you feel like it.
-
- What _is_ MSH ? Well, if you ever heard of CrossDos, it is about the
- same thing. Only better, since I wrote it :-) If you never heard of
- CrossDos: MSH is a (set of) programs that enable you to use IBM-PC
- diskettes in your Amiga, just as if they were regular Amiga disks.
- Something you probably thought or were told to be impossible!
-
- There exist other programs that will copy files to and/or from messy
- disks, but they do just that: copy. You are not able to use any other
- program directly with files you have stored on a messy disk. But, with MSH,
- this is finally possible. It seems that several people at about the same
- time decided that it was time to write a program like MSH. Hence there is
- also CrossDos. The fundamental difference between MSH and CrossDos is that
- you immediately get a fully functional version of MSH, and you even get the
- source! (And I am a non-commercial hobbyist).
-
- Of course, if you get the source, you won't get any warranty. The idea
- is that if it works, you send me some $$ (preferably in some stronger
- currency than the dollar, though); if it fails to work, you can fix it
- yourself.
-
- Well, enough talk. Some technical information can be found in the files
- msh.man and dev.man. Fanmail and money will always reach me at the
- following address:
-
- Olaf Seibert
- Beek 5
- 5815 CS Merselo
- The Netherlands
-
- Ordinary mail can also be addressed to the following address, which is
- guaranteed to change before September 1991:
-
- Olaf Seibert
- Vossendijk 149
- 6534 TN Nijmegen
- The Netherlands
-