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David Rosam  
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 More options Apr 1 2005, 6:38 pm
From: David Rosam <davidro...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 00:38:33 +0100
Local: Fri, Apr 1 2005 6:38 pm
Subject: Re: [43F Group] Re: Gmail as an "electronic filing system"
And it's cool :-)

Thanks for the pointer.

David

On Apr 2, 2005 12:25 AM, David Rosam <davidro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Um. Isn't that for Linux?:

> >GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail
> account as its storage medium.

> This appears to be for Windows:

> http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

> Just about to try it.

> David

> On Apr 1, 2005 11:47 PM, Adrienne Travis <alt.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I know this is a mostly mac-Centric group -- but there's also a
> > Windows 2000/XP shell extension that lets you map your Gmail account
> > directly into "My Computer" as an extra drive. It's at
> > http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesys...
> > . I know a similar thing is available for Linux, but dunno about Mac
> > OS.

> > --adrienne

> > On Apr 1, 2005 4:30 PM, Mark Hurd <markh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I've done something very similar, I created a separate account that I
> > > just use as a fileserver of sorts.  Only problem I've found so far is
> > > that GMail doesn't allow attachments larger than 8MB in size.

> > > For your standard documents/lists/what have you, however, this
> > > shouldn't be a problem.

> > > Mark

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