Re: [Freedos-user] re: Microsoft=92s patents

2006-01-14 Thread Brolin Empey
Derek Newhall wrote: --- Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Eli, James Tabor is probably right. To do this right, we need a simple, stable DOS (or MS-DOS emulator), with drivers for hard disks, USB flash disks, USB hard disks, LANs, etc., which can read and write all varie

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Microsoft=92s patents

2006-01-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Янв-2006 22:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/download/hardware/fatgen103.pdf This link doesn't work. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Sp

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Microsoft=92s patents

2006-01-14 Thread Derek Newhall
--- Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Eli, > > > James Tabor is probably right. To do this right, > we need a simple, > > stable DOS (or MS-DOS emulator), with drivers for > hard disks, USB flash > > disks, USB hard disks, LANs, etc., which can read > and write all > > varieties of FAT a

[Freedos-user] re: Microsoft=92s patents

2006-01-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Eli, > James Tabor is probably right. To do this right, we need a simple, > stable DOS (or MS-DOS emulator), with drivers for hard disks, USB flash > disks, USB hard disks, LANs, etc., which can read and write all > varieties of FAT and NTFS without damaging long file names and other > metada

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT and other file systems

2006-01-14 Thread Christian Voß
2006/1/14, Tom Lee Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Christian Voß wrote:> Hi,>> I can't understand that you talk only about linux filesystems as an > alternative. There are more options like i.e. HFS, HFS+ and FFS. And> HFS /HFS+ are under GPL so we can use it without repressions.> And I think it is n

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT and other file systems

2006-01-14 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
Christian Voß wrote: Hi, I can't understand that you talk only about linux filesystems as an alternative. There are more options like i.e. HFS, HFS+ and FFS. And HFS /HFS+ are under GPL so we can use it without repressions. And I think it is not more difficult to write HFS or FFS in the kern

[Freedos-user] Microsoft’s patents

2006-01-14 Thread Eli
For many (most?) people, FreeDOS offers a chance to start our Windows machines in DOS mode in order to do maintenance work on the hard drives with no open files. Not just for rescue when the machine crashes, but for total backup of a known-good system. James Tabor is probably right. To do th