Hi,

2011/10/8 Michael B. Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com>:

> Congratulations on writing a network file redirector.  I've been mulling
> this over for a while, trying to build up the nerve to do it.  I have
> "Undocumented DOS, 2nd Ed" as well, and now with this code I have two
> different samples to work with.

Thanks!

> I noticed that it doesn't support older versions of DOS - I presume that
> is just a matter of some of the data structures being different, and
> that it would be possible?

Yes, it is very easy. I didn't do it because I can't test it. I'll
give it a look if somebody can test it for me or can give me (or sell,
but really dirt cheap :) ) a legal copy of DOS 3.30.

> Also, your code assumes a Pentium (which
> makes sense for something running under VMWare) - it looks like it could
> be adapted for older CPUs, such as the 8088.  (The only Pentium specific
> instructions that I noticed were in your implementation of chain_intr.
> Is that correct?)

Yes, only there, which can be easily solved doing a couple of "pop bx"
instead of the "pop gs" and "pop fs". The only other 386 specific code
is in the VMWARE interface.

> My interest is in doing a virtual hard drive or file system (not decided
> yet) using the network redirector interface.  It would use a packet
> driver to work over Ethernet.

Something related to SMB/CIFS, maybe? :)

Best,
Eduardo.

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