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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Dell SVR4 (and Dell hardware)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.152011.23461@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 15:20:11 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.224152.9800@unixland.natick.ma.us> <BtwFuD.5rB@g <1992Sep2.143548.15051@crd.ge.com> <1992Sep2.153349.7886@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Sep2.153349.7886@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
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- | The obstacle, from my understanding, is that there's no documentation
- | whatsoever on HOW to add a new filesystem to this wonderful fancy-shmancy
- | virtual filesystem switch stuff. You have to have the source. And it's
- | obviously not simple, even with source, or I'm quite certain that Dell
- | or Microport or Esix would have done it by now. This has got to be the
- | single biggest complaint about SVR4 that we here - no CD-ROM file system.
- | They can't be ignoring it.
-
- Let me give you one fact, one rumor, and a bit of opinion ;-)
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- There is a lot of free documentation on how to do FSS stuff on uunet
- in the SCO section. I'm told that this applies *mostly* to the V.4 FSS
- interface. The opinion is that there's some stuff in the V.4 manual set,
- because I think I hit it looking for something else. I admit I have no
- idea why this is not in V.4 offerings, since small development teams
- have been able to make it work in various free unix-like o/s's.
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- UNIX is a registered trademark of either AT&T or USL.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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