Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!andrej!windy From: windy@andrej.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andrew John Stuart Miller) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Minix and Dos Message-ID: Date: 18 Jan 91 13:57:39 GMT References: <41583@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1153@pdxgate.UUCP> Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Lines: 40 dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes: >In <1153@pdxgate.UUCP> berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) writes: >I don't have Minix yet, but I've ordered the demo diskette. I was wondering >about the usefulness/feasibility of having Minix and DOS in the same partition. >For example, would it be useful to have a DOS program create a large (say 20 >MB) file in the root directory, and mark it read-only and hidden. Then, >some modification to MINIX's file system would have it allocate and use >blocks only within the DOS file, thus respecting DOS's files. In other words, >the DOS file acts as a virtual disk drive. I see some advantages to this: I don't! >Some disadvantages: . . . . . >Any comments? >-- >David Skoll. Minix has a dosread utility, so that you can read, write or directory any dos disk (hard or floppy). I use this to transfer files from my place of work (Unix and DOS) to my home machine (Minix) and back. If you know Unix, you won't want dos any more, after trying minix! Andrew Miller -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- email: windy@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de snail: Ruetscherstr 165 D-5100 Aachen voice: 0049 (0)241 894-355