Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

[Peter Graf]

Richard wrote:

>there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN
>Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files
>inside are still trivially accessible using qxltool on any reasonable OS.
>
>Time to set out own standards :)

Seconded :-)

A raw SMSQ filesystem on CD covers most of our needs except direct
interchange with other OS. Since free tools to create & burn QXL.WIN images
on other OS's are available, this is not a big issue nowadays.

The only thing we lack would be a QDOS/SMSQ program to write a QXL.WIN
image onto CDR.

For the Q40/Q60 this could be solved by preparing a special Linux ramdisk
with only the tools needed for file transfer/CD-writing and a script to
simplify things. This package could be used by a SMSQ/E user even without
installing or even knowing Linux... only the overhead to boot the Linux
kernel.

Peter