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- Submitted-by: staff@cadlab.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
-
- jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
- ...
- >I believe what is being referred to is use of the file system switch
- >to support MS/DOS filesystems without the use of special tools or
- >emulators. SCO Xenix has a collection of commands which are
- >intimately familiar with the format of MS/DOS file systems. Thus,
-
- Interactive 2.2 has both the collection-of-tools (actually bundled
- into one, "dossette", which you can run either interactively or not),
- AND the ability to mount a DOS partition or floppy (it seems that
- for some reasone you can only mount a DOS partition on a hard disk if
- that disk ALSO has a Unix partition - don't know if it's a bug or a
- feature) with the mount -f DOS switch (or mount's auto-fs-sensing
- feature). It seems a reasonable approach; the special purpose tool
- is faster for typical usage (grab a few files of a floppy), mounting
- allows full-range operation. There IS a bug in mounting a DOS12
- partition - if you have more than 64 files in a directory, there
- will be malfunctions (severe ones!); it's also indispensable to
- up the NDOSINODES undocumented variable (as I believe Conor showed
- a few months ago) from its default, currently 400.
-
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- Alex Martelli - CAD.LAB s.p.a., v. Stalingrado 45, Bologna, Italia
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 170
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