-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Michael Reichenbach <michael_reichenb...@freenet.de> > Michael Robinson schrieb:
[...] > > The advantage of supporting NTFS is that freedos could be > > used as a tool potentially to work on and repair a modern > > NT based Windows system. > > Yes. > There is another real advantage to supporting NTFS file systems. Those of us running legacy DOS applications would really like to be able to read and write files from NTFS filesystems. Imagine booting FreeDOS from a CD and being able to run applications from and save files to a WindowsXP NTFS file system! :-) The legacy applications I am running need direct access to twiddle bits on parallel ports with rather exact timing, for instance, so running in a virtual machine isn't a good option. What I do now is dual-boot, which is trivial once you introduce a FAT partition for DOS to do file accesses - which I currently have to have anyway. I have not been able to get NTFS4DOS to work reliably. Mark Bailey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
