Alan Altmark: >>>>>>>>>>>
On Tuesday, 05/07/2002 at 11:02 EST, Rick Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Now ... it would be really sweet if CMS had an EXT2 utility or driver
> (or both!). The utility would be easiest to implement by way of
> contributed code. The driver would require either hooking the CMS
> nucleus in kinky and unusual ways OR support from IBM, both difficult
> but fun challenges. Some have discussed a utility privately.
> I have yet to see, or to produce, any code for it.
I don't see it in my crystal ball. Since you've written cmsfs & co.,
(thanks!) there's no value in providing ext2 (no, I mean ext3, no, I mean
gpfs, no, I mean.....wait...uh...) support in CMS.
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Actually, just implementing an smbclient utility in CMS would
go a long way, though it'd be more interesting to make uuencode
(decode) available to CMS and then be able to spool things to a
particular user's reader...
I'm not really sure CMS can easily cope with a multilevel file-
system directory structure given it's basic primitivity; As such,
the smbclient type of tool would go a long way. True sharing of
a file for both reads and writes between the EBCDIC and ASCII
regimes would be more than a little confusing.
I do understand some of the advantages of the ability to sweep
through a Linux filesystem via CMS because it would simplify the
build process- kinda like Apple's PowerBook/iBook "Disk Mode"-
where one system can steal the drives of another a populate it
without the receiving system needing to be initialized from
nothing. (This can already be done via Linux, so I don't really
see much value doing it from CMS too.)
Live sharing of files is problematic given the architectures. If
you only want it that way so you can use Rexx, well, rexx/regina
is already available w/i Linux. If you really can't cope with
vi, emacs, jove, pico, there's always a good XEDIT clone named
THE.
That's what we need: a CMS shell for Linux. :-) :-) :-)
Now, what's that Narn doing here with a bat? (WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!)
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