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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Shareware wish list -or- does it exist?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.220656.28551@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 22:06:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.173739.22281@leland.Stanford.EDU> stidolph@leland.Stanford.EDU (Wayne Stidolph) writes:
- >dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >>If there are any enterprising developers out there, it seems that this
- >>could best be done by writing a Mac-format .IFS driver. This way, Mac
- >>disks would be recognized as any other foreign file-system - OS/2 and
- >>WPS using it seamlessly (like they do to HPFS) and DOS being able to
- >>see 8.3 files.
- >
- >Might have to talk to Central Point in *some* detail - the Mac uses
- >variable-speed drives, while the PC uses fixed-speed ...I suppose the
- >Option board diddles the seperator circuitry or some such, but it
- >seems certain (to me) that such an IFS will depend on unusual hardware
- >support.
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- I would expect such a driver to require CP's option board. Since the
- board and CP's programs can read Mac disks under DOS, I'd expect an
- OS/2 driver to be quite possible.
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