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Date:      Mon, 17 May 1999 21:22:47 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek)
Cc:        dlombardo@excite.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Nt source licenses...
Message-ID:  <199905172122.OAA26815@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990516124441.A43261@mAd> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at May 16, 99 12:44:42 pm

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> [-current -=> -chat]
> 
> [Re: stealing an NTFS implementation after getting an NT source
>      license]
> 
> On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 01:49:09PM +0100, Dean Lombardo wrote:
> > 
> > OK - perhaps I should rephrase it - they *can* sue, but they are not
> > very likely to do so without good reason.   Do you really think that
> 
> Besides that, even if they did sue, while it would certainly have some
> negative effects, we'd get a lot of useful publicity.

That, and putting the theing in would be like dipping a vestal virgin
in raw sewage.  8-|.

NTFS is pretty trivial, even if you need to write to it... the
only real roadblock is how VOP_ABORTOP is named as if it were a
transaction abort, but coded to free cn_pnbuf's (dumb).

The Helen Custer book and a ZIP driver are generally enough to allow
you, with a working NT system, to see how the log files are laid out,
such that you can write them safely.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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