Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:43:10 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Next DJGPP release (was: Emacs for DOS)
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On 28 Aug 1996, Alexander Lehmann wrote:

> VFAT16 is supported for win32 applications, but not for DOS
> applications using the INT calls. I have no idea how this really
> works, but I guess writing a TSR that intercepts the INT21 extensions
> and uses win32 functions to get the data should be relativly easy. The
> main advantage is that you don't have to muck with disk access at all
> (other than with DOS).

Perhaps some enlightenment can be drawn from the VFAT driver in Linux 2.0
kernel. Of course that is an inode-based implementation. I was wondering
in fact if Linux could use VFAT as its native filesystem, ala UMSDOS but
better since VFAT has LFN support etc.