I was wondering what the status is of FAT support? Is it possible to mount FAT12 floppies or FAT hard drives? I noticed Marcus had an implementation about a year old. How much does it take to implement something like that? If I've got some FAT libraries that I wrote for another project (that simply open the device, ie /dev/fd0, as a file and manipulate the FAT table and entries via stdio calls like fread/fwrite and fseek) would it be a good exercise to build an implementation (ie, 40-60 hrs) to learn how to hack translators?
Also, I've been a bit confused as to where I can find recent packages. I tried using dselect and getting packages from alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hurd/... but there weren't too many files there. I've been downloading packages now from ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/... is that where the latest ones are? Thanks! Tom
