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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
From: 7103_2...@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Date: 26 Mar 92 06:59:15 EST
Local: Thurs, Mar 26 1992 6:59 am
Subject: Re: Getting longer filenames out of GEMDOS
In article <A1294014...@thelake.mn.org>, st...@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) writes: MultiTOS truly is based on MiNT (Atari showed it at CEbit, so I'm allowed > [In article <1992Mar24.002549.31...@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>, > wallm...@backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Natuerlich!) writes ... ] > > It appears to me that even with the coming of MTOS we will still > I think that's still an unanswered question. If MultiTOS is truly based to say that much now :-)). Not every feature of MiNT will necessarily appear in MultiTOS, and vice-versa; but it might not be unreasonable to suppose that MultiTOS will have some sort of installable file systems. > The real bottleneck is that the AES and application software assume Exactly. Actually, the backslash isn't so much of a problem (it's easy enough > the 8+3 filename format and the backslash path delimiter. to convert / <-> \) but all the existing applications that think that all files have 8+3 uppercase names are going to be a real pain. I should emphasize here that all of the above are my opinions only. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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