RE: [MiNT] MetaDOS compatibility broken (fwd)

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

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Frank Naumann
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 9:39 AM
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MetaDOS compatibility broken (fwd)
>
>
> Hi!
>
> > 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 about a MetaDOS xfs that map directly and in a clean way all MetaDOS
> filesystems into MiNT?

Basically that would be similar to TOSFS, except that it should pass things
like Dopendir etc. to the DOS driver (in case that supports it).

This is possible -- but what would it be good for? SPIN.XFS already
implements a full featured interface to CDROM BOS drivers...