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From: cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix using the host OS filesystem?
Message-ID: <9925@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 89 19:31:49 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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The recent posting of Min2Dos looks real handy.

Has anyone considered an implementation of the Minix filesystem
on top of another OS filesystem?  It seems like the ultimate cross-
development tool would be an implementation of fs using DOS files
so one wouldn't need to run conversion utilities at all.

This might also be a helpful thing to have for porting to the many
almost-compatible DOS machines.

What, other than the extra file attributes (which I would be willing
to stick in a magic file in each DOS directory), would such a version
of the FS require?
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