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Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 02:31:10 -0400
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
From: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject: Re: UMSDOS
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 09.48 1998-09-06 -0700, you wrote:
>Peter Palotas wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I was just wondering if DJGPP has got any support for UMSDOS, or if there
>> are plans to include support for it in the next release of DJGPP.  If not,
>> how/where can I find information on how to sit down and implement it
myself?
>
>No, it's not there now, and nobody plans to implement it (AFAIK).  It's
>a good idea, though.  I think the Linux source explains the structure of
>the --linux-.--- file, or whatever it's called.  [checking] The
>documentation points you to an assemblage of comments from the source,
>which can be found at
>ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/umsdos or a mirror. 
>Then you can change the DJGPP library functions to handle the long file
>names, symlinks, etc.  It might be a big project.

You think it will be a big project? Hmm... I have never thought of it as
such a big project (haven't thought about it too much at all yet actually),
but then again, I haven't checked to see what is really needed to change.

The lfn part shouldn't be too hard anyway I think, atleast not to make it
possible... Implementing it in libc might ofcourse be worse. I haven't
really looked into all the file handling stuff in DJGPP.

I will however try to implement the functionality (hence reading and
writing umsdos files/directories), and then we will see if I am able to
implement it in libc too.


>Of course, you can add DOS files, and just umssync afterwards, but I
>assume that's not what you meant.

Well, what I want is ofcourse to be able to read the long file names and
everything from an UMSDOS filesystem, instead of the mangled ones, and also
be able to write such files etc.


Peter.
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