Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-04-01 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Norton utilities used to put a text file on each dir with long descriptive names. Also remember umsdos file system used to emulate unix file system over fat16 including long names and permissions 2009/4/1, Eric Auer : > > Hi! > >>> So why cant we just create a "database/table - file" that allows

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and other filesystems was: patents

2009-04-01 Thread Alain M.
>> Maybe this is also a dumb question but is it possible to run >> FreeDos on a different File System? like on of the linux ones >> and still be able to run/use most dos programs? There is one that works very well: When using dosemu, Drive C: is redirected to a directory in the System's file sys

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-04-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! >> So why cant we just create a "database/table - file" that allows >> lookup in a second area, either a file on >> the hard drive or a separate partition. then based on the >> file/directory "ID" and store that in the database table completely >> separate from the FAT if we don't touch fat i

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and other filesystems was: patents

2009-04-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Maybe this is also a dumb question but is it possible to run > FreeDos on a different File System? like on of the linux ones > and still be able to run/use most dos programs? Yes, the network drive interface and similar are used not only for network drives but also for CD/DVD filesystems f