Hello Eric, More than useable, it was just a question of historical curiosity.
In a very long time ago posted thread (I haven't tested myself) it was suggested that the redirector API does not work well with LFNs. I am not suggesting that the unmaintained DOS IFS would do, but I was curious to know how do these two different approaches to third party filesystems (redirector and IFS) compare to each other, and how they both deal with: LFNs, case sensitivity, unicode names, big files, and a long etc. Aitor On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 22:04, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi! As we have various drivers which use the network redirector API, > CD/DVD redirector API or both, including drivers which use those for > different purposes, which advantage do we expect from using a special > IFS API which is both "more on topic" and "less existing", as in only > very specific DOS versions may have supported it? My impression was > that things like vmsmount and etherdfs work fine without that API :-) > > Also note that the low-level format is not visible through IFS, so it > does not matter whether you use FAT32, FAT16 or NTFS. However, it may > matter whether you want long file names or files > 2 GB. For those, > I hope that the usual Win9x DOS 7.x int 21 calls have counterparts in > the network and CD redirector API space of the same DOS generations. > > Regards, Eric > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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