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From: ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: make DOS a filesystem?
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Date: 22 Sep 90 03:10:21 GMT
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Submitted-by: ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)

In article <536@usenix.ORG> cazier@mbunix.mitre.org (Cazier) writes:
>Since UNIX can support different filesystems, why wouldn't it be possible
>to either define another file structure that would allow UNIX to read/write
>DOS filesystems, or create some device driver that would interface with
>/dev/DOS to read/write DOS files and directories?

It not only can be done, it has been done.  SCO Xenix, for example,
allows reading/writing to a DOS partition.  There is also a set of
tools for doing this on other systems.

Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 125