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Subject: Re: Accessing dosminix partition from DOS?
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From: Mark Gray <markgray@iago.nac.net>
Date: 09 Feb 2000 01:46:52 -0500
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"Mike Kopplin" <kopplin@primenet.com> writes:

> Replying to my own post, I haven't found any way to read and write to the
> dosminix file from DOS.

> Why would I want to do such a silly thing?

> Well, I'm running dosminix on an HP200LX palmtop. The kernel has been
> modified a lot just to allow it to run without crashing. There are still
> some serious limitations though. Foremost is that minix can only see it's
> own little world. Dosdir, dosread, doswrite do not work. Serial
> communications don't work. Networking doesn't work. What I've been doing to
> transfer files is use a small dosminix file which I attach as dosd5. I copy
> this back and forth to another system running minix that can access the
> outside. It works, but it's a tedious process.

> Right now it's just amusing to run on the palmtop. If it could be made more
> functional though, it may actually be useful.

I will probably be writing software to do this in a bit (if somebody
does not beat me to it) -- but do not hold your breath or wait for me
because I have a lot on my plate at the moment.

