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- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 94 10:55:21 +0100
- Message-Id: <9401140955.AA19650@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9401130950.af28789@ncrhub1.NCR.COM> (message from Chris Herborth on Thu, 13 Jan 1994 09:37:56 -0500 (EST))
- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, invitation for mailing list (MINTOS)
-
- Chris Herborth <herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com> writes:
-
- |> What you wrote:
- |>>
- |>> walra%moacs11@relay.NL.net (Waldi Ravens) writes:
- |>>
- |>> |> Today I looked at a few socalled ports, and noticed that the atari switch
- |>> |> was mainly used to:
- |>> [...]
- |>> |> 2. compromise to the Gemdos filesystem limitations
- |>> |> not necessary for the minix fs, and theoretically there could be a
- |>> |> gemdos.xfs to overcome the gemdos fs limitations
- |>>
- |>> In fact, i have written such a thing, based on _unx2dos in the
- |>> GNUlibs. I have once planned to distribute it, but since we have
- |>> MinixFS, there is no need any more, i think. Anyway, i'm still using
- |>> it as a replacement for tosfs in MiNT.
-
- |> Does this emulate the Minix fs under a TOS filesystem? That'd be great!
- |> Is it as compatible as the minixfs (ie, it gives unique 8.3 filenames to
- |> brain-dead programs so you can still access your files)?
-
- Well, it emulates as much as _unx2dos from GNUlib emulates, i.e.
- symbolic links and up to 32 character file names. It uses the same
- mapping from long to 8.3 file names, equivalent to UNIXMODE="LAH.,"
- (but it isn't configurable, only by recompiling it). A program
- running in the TOS domain only sees the mangled 8.3 file names and no
- symbolic links, the names are simply untranslated in this case. (In
- most cases, the mangling just means truncation, but the names are
- guaranteed to be unique, of course.)
-
- Unfortunately, it is even slower than tosfs, and since we have
- MinixFS, i would not recommend it to anyone.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Andreas Schwab "And now for something
- schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
-