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From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes
To: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier)
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 22:09:54 +0100 (MET)
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199601071152.NAA00250@eac.iafrica.com> from "Robert Nordier" at Jan 7, 96 01:52:41 pm
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hasn't Robert Nordier said ? ...
> 
> I've a bit over seven years professional development experience in
> MS-DOS internals (device drivers, TSRs, interrupt handlers, etc.)
> in 80x86 assembler and C.
> 
> What is the current status of this part of the project, is more help
> needed, and what steps should one take to get involved?
> 
i think there's somebody needed to take the msdosfs as his "child",
improves it and keeps it up to date (win95 long filenames - now in
NetBSD-current, maybe usability of compressed drives - linux has
something here and maybe - not directly related - hpfs and/or ntfs
support - here you may also find some stuff in the linux area) - but i
think the most important is a safe msdos fs (so that you can mount it
rw without the possibility of loosing data or full partitions - which
seems to be possible) and as i said somebody who really cares for the
msdos fs

t
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