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Re: Future (post E 2.0) idea



In <4krbpd$apq@news.snni.com>, fricke@roboben.engr.ucdavis.edu (Tobin Fricke) writes:
>Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> wrote:
>
>>Think of the hFV as a temporary solution.
>>When they do a native port for Win32, it could use long-filenames, and an 
>>HFV wouldnt be needed (except maybe the SYSTEM.HFV for booting).
>>And I believe the same goes for OS/2 ports, if it uses the HPFS in OS/2.
>>Linux already has long file names, so that problem is solved.
>>I guess the HFVs are the only solution if you run Executor on MS or PC DOS.
>>Partitions seem a bit extreme for people who have important data and dont 
>>want to re-partition and re-format (or take a chance with a part resizer.)
>
>HPFS support would require a native OS/2 port (which shouldn't be that
>hard, IMHO.  Although I suppose that an emulator IS a complex thing)
>which would be absolutely wonderful.
>
>You don't need to have a native Win95 port for long filenames to work
>in Win95.  There are hooks that DOS applications can use under Win95
>to access long filenames.  Executor already does this quite well,
>although the disk access is really slow for me.

But how would you encode the resource fork on VFAT? AFAIK, there's no
file type information in VFAT (other than the extension :-)). I think 
you'd still need a second file. Correct me if I'm wrong; I don't know 
all that much about VFAT.

It could be done (although I don't know how easily) with HFPS, because
the resource fork could be translated into extended attributes.

The HFVs work pretty well, though, and I think fixing sound, CDEVs, 
INITs, font handling, etc. should be higher priorities.

I hadn't played with Executor since 1.99h (?), and was pleasantly 
surprised by the improvements. It will finally run under OS/2 on my 
home machine without crashing every time it's tasked moderately hard.

With the announcement that they will do an OS/2 port, I think I'm 
ready to buy Executor.

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Brian Knotts                Team OS/2              bknotts@europa.com
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