On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> / As to actually booting to DOS, I doubt I'll ever do that
> /again. I'm completely spoiled by being able to download from
> /three to five different places at once, while simultaneously
> /compiling a kernel and recording a song.
> /
>
> I believe dosemu can run DOS programs from ext2fs, but you might want to retain
> the possibility of running from straight DOS.
Which is why that partition is the first on the drive,
is bootable, and uses the DOS fs... You never know. ;-)
> Anybody try to run DOS Arachne from Linux dosemu?
Yes, though I've never done it, there are pages on the arachne
site about how to go about it... however, by tying up the modem
with Arachne under dosemu, you wouldn't be able to use it for
anything else. With Linux Arachne, you can surf using Arachne
while also having other connections opened... ftp, telnet, pop
or whatever. Even download the same page in Netscape and Arachne
at the same time if you want.
> How can one modem download from more than one place at a time, and what would be
> the advantage?
Your modem is connected to your ISP. From there, connections
go out like a spider web. Under Netscape, for instance, when
you're trying to download something, you often see a little
"stalled" on the status bar. In Arachne, you see lightning bolts,
but the status bar shows no files being downloaded.
Even though the net consists of OC3, T3, and T1 lines,
bottlenecks occur. Even to the point that your (my) measly little
33.6kbps modem is left twiddling its thumbs.
If you have 3 different connections open along 3 different spider
strands, your system gives an equal share to each, so your modem is
downloading at 11.2k from each strand. As long as each strand is
feeding you data, there really isn't any advantage to multiple
connections. In the real world though, you never have a constant-
feed connection.
When one route becomes bottlenecked or stalled, or one of the
servers can't keep up with demand, ppp switches over to download
each of the other two connections @ 16.8k. If you only had the
single connection opened along the congested connection, your
modem is sitting there twiddling its thumbs, but with three
connections opened, ppp is making productive use of that time.
Depending on the net congestion during any particular time
between particular servers, multiple connections can make little
difference, or they can make quite a noticeable difference.
> OS/2 can read & write FAT & HPFS, newer versions including eComStation can also
> handle JFS (Journaling File System). OS/2 can read ISO 9660 CD-ROMs with
> Joliet, using an updated CDFS.IFS, but can't read the long file names on Walnut
> Creek Linux CD-ROMs. OS/2 Warp 4 original release couldn't read any long file
> names on CD-ROMs.
Heh, I've already forgotten the question here.
'apropos fs | grep filesystem' gets me this:
Linux filesystem types: minix, ext, ext2, xia, msdos, umsdos, vfat, proc,
nfs, iso9660, hpfs, sysv, smb, ncpfs
Certainly not complete, but you could probably say those are
the default file systems supported by Linux.
I've burned CDs with Rock Ridge (which is probably what your
Walnut Creek CD's used) and Jolliet extensions to iso9660,
so I'm sure there are other extensions, and other filesystems
supported by Linux. Off the top of my head, I know that the ReiserFS,
a journalling file system, is offered with a Mandrake install.
I've also seen articles about JFS and other journalling file systems
available for Linux now, or in the process of being ported.
> If you saw Ultimail Lite that came with OS/2 Warp 4, you'd know why!
Oh... ok, so you meant that the selection in OS/2 was pitiful,
not necessarily that you "need" to run DOS mail programs if there
was something better for OS/2.
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