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Re: [MiNT] tosfs

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Anders Eriksson wrote:

> > 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
> 
> I don't see the relevance between ext2fs and Newfatfs?

The same VFS is used to access both filesystems, AFAIK.

> I just tested Imagecopy here, and it writes happily on my
> newfatfs partions as well as Minixfs partions.

Here, it works only on pure TOSFS or Minix 0.60 (which was
patched to handle old calls, AFAIK).

> > can access files, but cannot differenciate filenames beyond 12
> > characters. There were others I have tested too.
> 
> Isn't that normal for applications that doesn't enter the
> MiNT domain (Pdomain())?

Indeed.

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