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  6. From: gilem@litecdev.eng.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
  7. Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
  8. Subject: Re: FW: Let's get System 7.x on top!
  9. Date: 19 Apr 1996 10:24:39 -0400
  10. Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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  12. Message-ID: <4l87n7$1094@litecdev.eng.rpi.edu>
  13. References: <199604170141.SAA28165@dfw-ix12.ix.netcom.com> <4l6h4s$6pu@news.snni.com>
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  20. In article <4l6h4s$6pu@news.snni.com>,
  21. Tobin Fricke <fricke@roboben.engr.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
  22. >"Dan Guisinger" <dan_g@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
  23. >
  24. >
  25. >
  26. >> Here I'll explain the reasons for a port to Win95/NT and OS/2.
  27. >> (Note, I don't use OS/2, and don't know how easy the features that 
  28. >> windows can handle can be put into OS/2 since they aren't designed the 
  29. >> same since 1991)
  30. >
  31. >> 1) IFS    --    Windows 95 and NT 4.0 (Not sure about 3.51) use an 
  32. >> Installable File System.  This was, ALL programs can read from Mac disks.
  33. >
  34. >Windows95 uses a poor and incomplete implementation of IFS.  I am not
  35. >sure about Windows NT, but I believe that you are correct about it.
  36. >
  37.  
  38. the only problem is that microsloth has still not released the necessary
  39. documentation and DDK material necessary to create an IFS for windowsNT.
  40.  
  41. -- 
  42. ________________________________________________________________________
  43.  Michael Gile                        |               Graduate Assistant
  44.  gilem@rpi.edu                       |   Computer & Systems Engineering
  45.                                      | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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