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- 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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