Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 17:30:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: binhdo@cs.ubc.ca, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be visible from Win95? Message-ID: <199601030030.RAA13203@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960102134733.217A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Jan 2, 96 01:48:37 pm
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> > As I have both Win95 and FreeBSD and as I specified /win95 as a > > mount partition of FreeBSD I can access Win95 from within FreeBSD. > > But is there any way to view FreeBSD from within Win95? Thank you > > for the information. > > No. Windows 95 does not support the Unix filesystem. Well. It goes to internal Alpha on the 12th. 8-). But in order to support short file names, the on disk directory structure had to change... 8-(. But the new devfs should allow it to be auto-recognized. 8-). But there's no code to do that yet. 8-(. [ ... ] > Besides, Windows 95 does not like > anything messing with the FAT and not the VFAT. It doesn't bitch too loudly. See "Unauthorized Windows 95" by Schulman.
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