Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:47:53 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: rnordier@iafrica.com (Robert Nordier), root@synthcom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DOS File system fixes Message-ID: <9601092147.AA07945@gnu.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 10:32:53 PST." <199601091832.LAA12472@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> > > It would be heinous to support something like DBLSPACE. ;-) > > > > Hmmm.... :-) > > > > Actually, though, I feel that if we can't support the msdosfs _as_it_is_ > > used_, then we aren't living up to "FreeBSD is better" and the msdosfs > > support is more something to look good on the features list than an > > actual benefit. I know one of the big gripes about one of the OS/2 WARP > > releases was that it didn't want to have anything to do with compressed > > drives. DBLSPACE should be in there somewhere (though admittedly not a top > > priority). > > DoubleSpace is Evil. So is DriveSpace and DriveSpace 3. > Funny you feel that way ;-) I totally agree... Jerry Pournelle had a column in byte last month (while he didn't say it was evil, he said it wasn't a good idea...) gzip -r . works fine for me ;-) -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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