Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com X-Envelope-To: Message-ID: <36F7E674.FCBE4E8@hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:07:32 +0100 From: John Mullee Organization: Ex Machina Interactive Architects X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Again about physical disks. References: <1.5.4.32.19990323174206.006757b8@lola.univ-lemans.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Serguei DACHIAN wrote: > Yes, surely all this would be much simpler, but what I am trying to do, is > to write a Win9x application (using CygWin) capable of reading Ext2 Linux > partition on a dual boot machine Oooh. Why not look into writing a device/filesystem driver? Would fit in more neatly, and be more flexible (-> Win NT/98/2K)... no? Wouldn't require raving insanity either ;) One might even be able to layer FAT on top of EXT2. Wouldn't that be nice?! I wonder if cygwin can produce VXD's/.386 etcetera? .. You could assemble them manually, if not.. john -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com