Re: [MiNT] tosfs

[atari@bright.net (Lonny Pursell)]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:40:31 +0100, Odd Skancke wrote:

>On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:
>>
>> > > Okay, butthead, prove me otherwise.  If you cannot, YOU shut up.
>> >
>> > Since it's impossible to prove that a certain system call is
>> > NOT used, the only appropriate proof here would be that you
>> > clarify your previous statement with a list of examples, and
>> > not make hard statements based on suspicions.

Been following this somewhat.  I would suggest to Martin a few
minutes with SysMon would reveal the calls.  At least then
there may be some slightly improved descussion?

>> I did that with several applications, a while back.  I cannot
>> remember off-hand which calls are the problem, but when I looked
>> them up in the Compendium, they were all marked as "supported
>> until TOS 1.04" or something that indicated they were obsolete.

I would suggest having the information in-hand before you post.
I mean that in the nicest way, often I go off half loaded myself
only to regret it later.  ;-)

>> Imagecopy is one program that flatly refuses to read or write
>> files to ext2, yet it is also one of the most usefull. 1st-guide
>> can access files, but cannot differenciate filenames beyond 12
>> characters. There were others I have tested too.
>
> And what does ext2fs have to do with NEWFATFS?? Do you really know what
>you are talking about? Imagecopy works perfect on NEWFATFS!

If Martin don't have SysMon it's available on my webpage
for download, limited demo version, but still very useful.

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