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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 - a status report. Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <Cyp2AE.M6q@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <38j31l$6nf@agate.berkeley.edu> <3937bd$l19@masala.cc.uh.edu> <395qr4$msb@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <39a3s8$n16@masala.cc.uh.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 13:47:02 GMT Lines: 13 In article <39a3s8$n16@masala.cc.uh.edu>, Woody Jin <wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu> wrote: >Is it more important because there were lots of request (if so, it is >strange, since I have never seen such requests) ? Or is it because >there is a technical challenge for doing it (if so, why msdos support is >not so technically challenging) ? It's more important because it's more useful to the people who are doing it? If you want it, then why don't you do it and submit it? That's how it got into Linux: the people who wanted it did it and distributed it. Making FAT file systems work is pretty minor, when there's a perfectly good "mread" program. I'm sure you can crib from that.