Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com> wrote:
> Olaf Seibert wrote:
> > 
> > Hm... if anybody can send me a clear specification of how long filenames
> > work, I might try to hack it into MSH: when I have my Amiga back up and
> > running (I have just moved yesterday). Do they work on floppies so I can
> > take some to a location where there is a W95 installation and test them?  
>
> I think William Solfrank (ws@netbsd.org) did the W95 support in
> msdosfs... he'd be the one to talk to. Yes, I'm pretty sure it works on
> floppies.

I'll ask him then. I looked at the code briefly and the methoud devised
by M$ seemed quite horrible. I would need to know a bit more to
determine if (and how) it would fit in the existing scheme of things in
MSH:.

> PS, if you want another good project, how about writing a newfs_msdos?
> You must already have formatting support in MSH, so all you'd need is to
> reorganize it and add optional W95 support to it too. newfs_ados would

Well, I haven't had a working NetBSD/Amiga system since before 1.0.
If somebody would swap my A4000/040 with one in which my Z3 Fastlane
actually *works*, I would be most grateful, and I could work on such
projects...

> also be nice (and if you're really ambitious, fsck_msdos and fsck_ados :->)

For fsck_ados I would recommend an AmigaOS emulator + DiskSalv :)
I have toyed with the idea of a chkdsk-like program for MSH:, but
I never got around to it.

-Olaf.
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