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Article #528Re: make DOS a filesystem?
From: Earl H. Kinmonth
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 1990 03:10
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 1990 03:10
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Submitted-by: ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) In article <536@usenix.ORG> cazier@mbunix.mitre.org (Cazier) writes: >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? It not only can be done, it has been done. SCO Xenix, for example, allows reading/writing to a DOS partition. There is also a set of tools for doing this on other systems. Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 125
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!usenix!jsq From: ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: make DOS a filesystem? Message-ID: <537@usenix.ORG> Date: 22 Sep 90 03:10:21 GMT References: <536@usenix.ORG> Sender: jsq@usenix.ORG Organization: Centre for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Sheffield Lines: 13 Approved: jsq@usenix.org (Moderator, John Quarterman) X-Submissions: std-unix@uunet.uu.net