Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: porting Minix fs programs to Windows
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On 1999-11-14 aaronlicata@hotmail.com said:
   >Does any one know how to let MsVisualC++5.0 understad to open a
   >floppy device using open() ? Is this problem because Windows kind
   >of protects its own file system from low level access of a floppy
   >device?
As far as I know, MSDOS and Windows do not have the Unix concept of a
disk drive also being a file that can be opened.  In DOS you call
interrupts to read and write disk sectors.  I'm not sure how it is done
in Windows.  You will also find that the structure of the FAT file system
is completely different from that of Minix.  For more advice I suggest
you try comp.os.msdos.programmer or one of the
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.* newsgroups.
   >P.S.
   >Windows98 file system seems to understand and convert forward slash paths
   >into backslash. Nice.
This has been an MSDOS feature since at least version 2.0, although back
slashes must be used at the command line.



