Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-14 Thread Christian Masloch
The main bug/feature that I plan to work on is FAT+ support, the working with 4GB files goes along with this since it adds support for 4+GB files. Please keep this out of production kernels. I agree - modifying FAT to support files 4 GB is asking for trouble. Of course you can add it to

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-14 Thread Pat Villani
OK, let me chime in on this. Jim and I had several conversations on topics like this before I took over. I want to share the current thinking. We, as a group, have made a significant impact on the open source community and computing in general. This is something we need to keep in mind as we

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, The main bug/feature that I plan to work on is FAT+ support, the working with 4GB files goes along with this since it adds support for 4+GB files. Please keep this out of production kernels. I agree - modifying FAT to support files 4 GB is asking for trouble. Of course you

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jeremy, You misunderstand me :-) Of course we should support files of 2-4 GB size in the STABLE kernel very soon! Just do not support ABOVE 4 GB There are no longer multiple active branches, there is only trunk. Trunk is stable, but there also is devel / unstable:

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-14 Thread Pat Villani
Nope, I'm not doing anything other than trying to gather enough information with respect to project status to try to come up with a road map and possibly plan release 1.1. I have made *NO* decisions. Pat On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi Jeremy, ***

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Freedos-kernel Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1

2009-05-14 Thread Abrahan Sanjuas
Ex-FAT support instead of FAT+ or FAT32+?? This idea seems more good like FAT+ instead :-) And how is the support for Windows 3.1 / 3.11? - Original Message - From: freedos-kernel-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net To: freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:26

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Freedos-kernel Digest, Vol 29, Issue 1

2009-05-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Abrahan, Ex-FAT support instead of FAT+ or FAT32+?? This idea seems more good like FAT+ instead :-) And how is the support for Windows 3.1 / 3.11? While it is called FAT, exFAT seems to differ a lot from FAT. Also, exFAT is heavily patented... Talking about FAT+... I really wonder