From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 14:54:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA08920 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:54:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (slipper101141.iafrica.com [196.7.101.141]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA08908 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:53:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA00491; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 00:52:48 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199603152252.AAA00491@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: Availability of Win95 Filesystem on FreeBSD? To: scott@statsci.com Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 00:52:47 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com, davidc@pdd.3com.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Scott Blachowicz" at Mar 15, 96 10:39:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Scott Blachowicz wrote: > Robert Nordier wrote: > > > However, an enhanced version of 'mtools' has recently been released, so > > this may be of some use in the meantime. > > You mean mtools-2.5.4? I've started trying to make a FreeBSD "port" of > that, but it died in the compilation complaining about something having to > do with timezones. I haven't had the time (for a while now) to get back > to it and fix it up, but I hope to. Of course, by the time I get back to > it, someone else will have probably done it... Yes, I meant 2.5.4, though I probably erred in recommending this, as it is very much a beta release. (The maintainer suggests somewhere that those interested in actually _using_ the package should wait for 3.0.) I've been playing around with it, but I was mostly interested in getting bits of it to fail, rather than getting the whole of it working. (For comparison with the msdosfs design.) I see from archie that there is a 2.5.4a (11 Feb) out at a few sites, if anyone does want to work on a port. -- Robert Nordier