From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) Subject: Re: Dos 6/LILO/Linux -- anyone look? Date: 7 Apr 1993 20:11:33 GMT
In article <C51MGM.Irx@shyguy.lonestar.org>, bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers) writes:
> Minor side point -- guess that a DOS 6 compressed file structure would
> not be accessable to Linux. Any thoughts on whether MS would
> discuss the compressed file structure with the outside world?
I don't know about DOS-6, but I use DRDOS-6.0 which comes complete
with SuperStor disk compression. Admitedly I can't access the
compressed data directly from within Linux, but I *can* bring up DRDOS
plus SuperStor in a Linux dos-emulator window (thanks, Bob!), mount
the Linux partition inside dos, and then copy the data between
SuperStor and Linux using the standard DOS copy command. Works like a
charm.
Like I say, I haven't tried MSDOS-6 but it may well work, especially
once the shiny new dosemu-0.49 is released. Your mileage may vary :-)
Cheers,
Stephen Tweedie.