make DOS a filesystem?

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From: Cazier
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 1990 20:53

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Since UNIX can support different filesystems, why wouldn't it be possible
to either define another file structure that would allow UNIX to read/write
DOS filesystems, or create some device driver that would interface with
/dev/DOS to read/write DOS files and directories?

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