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Re: [MiNT] pdomain(0) and Ext2-FS... Arrgh!



On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:28:50PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On 2000-3-6, Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de> wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn's it be better to move such code to the kernel? I
> > don't see why every filesystem should have to provide its own
> > conversion code.
> 
> If you read the Compendium, you'll find that GEMDOS is supposed
> to handle case conversion between DOS and extended filesystems.

And the point is?

That does not tell me if I have to do that in the filesystem or in the
kernel, right?

> What remains to be done is to add some generic method to convert
> case for apps compiled to use older TOS fileselector calls (which
> seems to be what you suggest).

Fileselector? That is an AES function.

cu
Michael
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