Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!sci.kun.nl!cs.kun.nl!rhialto From: rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf'Rhialto'Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: A device for file devices? Message-ID: <3495@wn1.sci.kun.nl> Date: 1 May 91 16:14:53 GMT References: <12798@monu1.cc.monash.oz> Sender: root@sci.kun.nl Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 14 In article <12798@monu1.cc.monash.oz> ins760z@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au (mr c.r. hames) writes: > Has someone written a device that takes a file device >(by this a mean like those virtual hard drives with the bridgeboard) >for its input? So for instance you could mount one of these bridgeboard >files with a MessyDOS filesystem to read and write from/to it. fmsdisk.device, by Mattew Dillon, should be exactly what you describe. Available on some Fish disk, of course. Oh, and if it actually works with MSH: and a bridgeboard file, please let me know so I can document the fact. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert rhialto@cs.kun.nl How can you be so stupid if you're identical to me? -Robert Silverberg