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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MSDOS: (Re: Shareware request)
Message-ID: <2816@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 14 Oct 88 11:27:18 GMT
References: <8810131005.AA13277@MATH.Tau.Ac.IL>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <8810131005.AA13277@MATH.Tau.Ac.IL>, finkel@TAURUS.BITNET writes:
> I've received a letter from a BITNET user on Germany who claims he has written
> an MSDOS device/handler, but he did only the read part. he didn't manage to
> write an MSDOS sector or track.

All *right*. Now if he'd publish it, someone would hack that in in no time.

> I also don't see why do you think you will need 'dosmount'.

Convenience. I don't want to dedicate a drive to DOS, and there isn't an
unmount command currently available.

> You will have to get an 'unmount' command to prevent FileSystem from trying
> to validate your MS-DOS disk when you insert it into DF0 or DF1 .

Right, and another when you want to *stop* using the DOS format and use your
amiga drive again (something to tell doshandler.device to go away). These
are the commands I'm calling 'dosmount' and 'dosunmount'.
-- 
		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		 Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?