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- Brian Knotts (bknotts@europa.com) wrote:
- : 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.
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- : 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.
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- : It could be done (although I don't know how easily) with HFPS, because
- : the resource fork could be translated into extended attributes.
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- Isn't there a 64k limit on extended attributes?
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- : The HFVs work pretty well, though, and I think fixing sound, CDEVs,
- : INITs, font handling, etc. should be higher priorities.
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- : 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.
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- : With the announcement that they will do an OS/2 port, I think I'm
- : ready to buy Executor.
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