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RE: [MiNT] Mount and MiNT



> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 1:00 PM
> To: Julian Reschke
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] Mount and MiNT
>
>
> > > This way, I can write straight ST disks and boot normally on A,
> > > but if I need to use long filenames (such as when exchanging data
> > > with windows) then I call floppy B.
> >
> > I don't see why you need a TOSFS for that. Just set it
> permanently to VFAT.
>
> No.  On plain TOS, the 2-letter VFAT attribute files are a mess,
> which shows on the desktop as undeletable files.  I need that TOSFS
> drive as wel, to prevent that, when writing files for singleTOS.

That's a bug in the TOS' GEMDOS for which a patch program is available
somewhere.