Re: "Device" vs. "Handler"??

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 1990 12:24

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In article <25339.26d3ba57@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> Finally the example of MSH: is BOTH a device and a handler.  The MSH:
> part is a handler that provides a AmigaDOS interface to a MS-DOS file
> system.  In practice this would be all that is needed.  MSH also
> provides a device driver to access the floppy hardware because of bugs
> in trackdisk.device, so messydisk.device is a device.

Well, if you call "using a proprietary low-level format to pack 880K instead
of 720K on a disk" a "bug", yes. I don't know about MSH:, but CrossDOS has
an mfm.device for the same reason... but you can put an AmigaDOS filesystem
on an mfm.device disk, or an MS-DOS file system on a trackdisk.device disk.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: "Device" vs. "Handler"??
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