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I've just uploaded the Minix filesystem driver and associated tools for MiNT
to atari.archive , version 0.55 . Not a great deal has changed since the last
version (0.541) except file locking code has been added, this feature requires
MiNT 0.94 at least to work. I've also documented the 'fscntl' calls which can
now be classed as 'official' . An explicit 'copying' file is included rather
than saying just 'copyright' as I did before , which might be misunderstood.
Binaries and sources are included in the archive (it should be in
atari/mint/mfs055.zoo).
	For those who aren't familiar with this package ,it is a complete
Unix like filesystem driver for Atari ST and can be used as an alternative to
the standard TOS filesystem. It has most of the features you would expect from
such a filesystem, such as hard links , symbolic links , standard Unix file
permissions, setuid/setgid, mixed case filenames (i.e. not 8+3 upper case only)
etc. Also included is an experimental 'long-filename' filesystem feature which
allows filenames longer than the standard 14 character limit. Unfortunately
certain gem programs don't like mixed case filenames not in 8+3 format so
a facility is offered to translate the mixed case stuff into an approximate
8+3 form for TOS, and only 'MiNT aware' programs can really make use of them
fully (like the GNU filetools in atari/mint).
	As might be guessed from its name it uses the same format as 'Minix'
and is very useful if you use Minix as it makes Minix partitions (if set up
correctly) behave similarly to TOS ones. It supports the new V2 filesystem
format too.
	A warning or two is in order, since the filesystem format is totally
incompatible with TOS all standard TOS filesystem repair utilities are useless.
So if you don't have the editing and repair utilities in Minix be prepared to
make backups ! Having said that I use two minix partitions on my hard drive
all the time and no release version has ever even damaged one, however I ,
I naturally can't guarantee no version ever will.
	For more details see the docs in the package itself. Please mail me
any questions/bugs or bugfixes at shenson@csm.ac.uk as I currently can't
read this newsgroup.