Re: [MiNT] might be stupid questions:

["George Crissman" <strads@tmisnet.com>]

Isn't the TOS 4.5 in the upcoming Milan supposedly
improved and bug-free?  It may offer long filenames
(at least, that's what I'm hoping).

Although it boots into MagiC, apparently TOS 4.5 will
be an option (hold down CTRL or SHFT during boot),
which will make MiNT possible, too.

George Crissman
strads@tmisnet.com

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> From: Katherine Ellis <kellis@fdn.com>
> To: 
> Cc: MiNT List <mint@fishpool.com>
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] might be stupid questions:
> Date: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 8:40 AM
> 
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Frank Naumann wrote:
> 
> > And I think the programming overhead at AES level is much greater as on
> > GEMDOS level. So if you decide you need at least N.AES as minimal base you
> > can also skip Fsfirst/Fsnext stuff.
> 
> Oh I totally agree, I was talking here about GEMDOS, because a programer
> had a problem, and some questions. 
> The aes for sure causes even more problems.
> 
> Just that I thought that long filenames should be an add-on, an extension,
> and not a total replacement of what was available on TOS.
> 
> I mean, take a simple GEM viewer, or even text viewer.
> 
> There are no SPECIAL mint or magic calls needed, other than maybe long
> filename support.
> Just that I am seeing SO little atari program properly working with long
> filenames, that I am wondering the real reasons of such non support.
> 
> My original question was only to know the possibilities available.
> 
> I don't use Singletos. But the other way around, if TOS prog could support
> long filenames that could have been very nice. (image copy for example, or
> interface and so many more, i mean it is ok as long as we keep TOSFS
> around, but would be nice to have all my data partition being ext2fs or
> minix)
> 
> If there is No way possible to make this better, then this discussion
> should end now, (and I apologize for having brought that up :) however, if
> there is a way to make this better, I am all ears open :)
> 
> Thanks. 
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> MiNT Is Now TOS, let's move on, shall we?  /
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