Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: reload partition table and reassign drive letters

2005-10-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
The main issue with FreeCom would be the location of its resources changing. As long as the comspec env variable still pointed to the same (or an identical) copy of the strings, it would probably be ok, but honestly I don't know if FreeCom closes/opens or keeps open the file with its

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: reload partition table and reassign drive letters

2005-10-19 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Kenneth, The main issue with FreeCom would be the location of its resources changing. under normal circumstances, FreeCom-xmsswap will have it's resources loaded at startup and touch them never again. Tom --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [Freedos-kernel] re: reload partition table and reassign drive letters

2005-10-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
firstly, I never said FreeCom couldn't handle drive letter changes, I said if one did something, then they need to make sure it can; in particular the way it loads strings; although from my experience not being able to load its strings usually just results in FreeCom issuing useless messages

Re: [Freedos-kernel] re: reload partition table and reassign drive letters

2005-10-19 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Very very nice discussion, I am enjoying this a lot, thanks! Kenneth J. Davis escribió: various details like that. And really if you wanted to be clever, maintain the needed information about open files and TSRs won't even notice the change, even if the file is now on a different drive