Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 22:10:32 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: obrien@antares.aero.org (Mike O'Brien) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2-BETA is now available Message-ID: <199612271140.WAA27741@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199612270126.RAA05384@antares.aero.org> from Mike O'Brien at "Dec 26, 96 05:26:46 pm"
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Mike O'Brien stands accused of saying: > I saw the bit where the install process no longer uses the DOSFS > mechanism. That's correct, it now uses a special-purpose DOS FS I/O library written by Robert N. This is as much to standardise sysinstall as anything. > stack Windows is using. I wish DOSFS were in better shape, because > occasionally when I get too carried away at moving stuff around on > the DOS partition while I'm still running the UNIX side of the > house, I wind up punching big holes in my file system. You should pay more attention then. The major problems causing this were eradicated some time ago, and the fix is in 2.2. > It's always puzzled me why DOSFS wasn't a higher-priority item. Me, > I couldn't live without it. Do people really avoid Windows that strenuously? Yes. > No way am I giving up UNIX and if WordPro for UNIX ever came around WordPro? If you want a Unix wordprocessor, there's WordPerfect (works very well), or Applixware (Like MS Office, and competitively priced too). The former is a SCO application, the latter available for many platforms including Linux. Due to FreeBSD's good emulation support, both of these are quite viable. Alternatively, Wine is getting close to running MS Word 6 well; it's not elegant but certainly runs OK for the trivial things I tried. > were in better shape. When I become either sufficiently brave or > sufficiently unemployed I'll have to take a look at it. You're _still_ not paying enough attention 8) If luck is with us, Robert N. will have time these holidays inbetween having a life and a job and finish his complete-from-scratch-reimplementation (VFATFS) and will thus be canonalised. And you scum-eating W95 users will even have your long filenames (maybe). 8) > Mike O'Brien -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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