RE: [MiNT] MetaDOS compatibility broken (fwd)

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

Well.

MiNT never has been really "compatible" with MetaDOS -- at least not to the
extent that Ronald would like to see. However it *is* compatible with
MetaXBS, which allows to install a CDROM BOS driver, and to access this
driver through an XFS.

What might have happened is that if you install MetaDOS or BetaDOS before
MiNT, you have access to the CD filesystem through the old TOSFS. If this is
disabled (and replaced ny the NEWFATFS), this pass-through simply does not
work.


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Julian F. Reschke (mailto:reschke@medicaldataservice.de)
MedicalData Service GmbH Münster, Germany

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 7:47 AM
> To: MiNT List
> Subject: [MiNT] MetaDOS compatibility broken (fwd)
>
>
> This came from the newsgroups.
> Does anyone have any idea what could cause this?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:26:22 GMT
> From: Ronald Andersson <dlanor@oden.se>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
> Subject: Re: Riebl card info needed
>
> In the latest MiNT version I tested (FreeMiNT 1.15.1) someone had
> managed to kill off the last remnant of compatibility to MetaDOS.
> (And thus also to my BetaDOS)  Good work... NOT.
>
> It worked fine with FreeMiNT 1.15.0, but not at all with 1.15.1
> Perhaps I'm missing a point here, but where is the benefit in
> blocking compatibilities ?
>
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