Can Linux mount "Stacker" compressed drives, and what about IBM PC-DOS?

[bododiehn]

I use Stacker 4 for DOS and OS/2 because it provides excellent
compression and works in DOS, OS/2, and Win95. Is there any way Linux
can mount stacked drives?
Also, one of my partitions uses IBM PC-DOS 7.0 to run Windows 3.11.
Linux won't mount it when identified as MSDOS. Is it indeed
different, and has anyone been able to mount a PC-DOS partition?
Thanks!

[Tim Bourne]

On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 14:30:01 GMT, bodo...@REMOVE-THISworldnet.att.net
(bododiehn) wrote:

> I use Stacker 4 for DOS and OS/2 because it provides excellent
>compression and works in DOS, OS/2, and Win95. Is there any way Linux
>can mount stacked drives?
>

Yes - with 'dmsdos'.

I use it to access DOS 6.20 'doublespaced' CVFs using kernel 2.0.36 and it works
fine. It should work for Stacker as well.

Quote from dmsdos-0.9.2.1.lsm:

Version: 0.9.2.1
Entered-date: 04MAR1999
Description: dmsdos: reads and writes compressed dos filesystems (CVF-FAT)
* read and write access to compressed partitions (files like
dblspace.xxx, drvspace.xxx and stacvol.xxx). The following
configurations are supported:
- DoubleSpace / DriveSpace (msdos 6.x)
- DoubleSpace / DriveSpace (older win95 releases)
- DriveSpace 3 (win95 with Plus! pack or newer win95)
- Stacker 3
- Stacker 4
.
.
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/dosfs
262 kB dmsdos-0.9.2.1.tgz
Alternate-site: ftp.uni-stuttgart.de /pub/systems/linux/local/system
262 kB dmsdos-0.9.2.1.tgz
fb9nt.uni-duisburg.de /pub/linux/dmsdos
262 kB dmsdosfs-0.9.2.1.tgz
.
Platforms: Linux 2.0.29 up to 2.0.36, 2.1.94 or newer, 2.2.0 or newer,
msdos 6.x, msdos 7.x, win95, winnt 4.0

HTH