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Short: V2.11b2 Multi filesys+.device, pc+mac+..
Uploader: msw@blackpool.ac.uk
Author: frans (francis swift)
Type: disk/misc
Replaces: xfs210b2.lha
XFileSystem Version 2.11 beta (2nd) release.
Consisting of xfsd (a disk handler for your L: directory)
and fd.device (for your devs: directory).
Current status:
readdir read write delete rename readpart format
ql + + + + +
spectrum + +
msdos + + + + + +
archimedes + +
amiga + + + + + +
minix + +
mac + + +
cpm + +
As you can see, there is currently no way to format disks.
In fact, most of the code to format disks marked as writeable
exists, it's just there's no way to select it at the moment.
See the xfs.guide 'usage' section for further info.
-------------------------- xfs211b2 ----------------------------
I've completely re-written the sector access / allocation on the
Amiga handler, so as to allow you to write to media larger than
floppy disks. Unfortunately I haven't had time to test it, so I
don't recommend you use it for anything crucial yet, just media
you can afford to re-format. Oh, and I found a few things were
missing in the directory cacheing (DC) part of the handler, so
I've made DC disks read-only for the moment till I sort it out.
Also, for some reason the utf-8 internal names were being sent
to the Amiga name hashing routines, causing all files whose names
contained accented characters to be put on the wrong hash chain.
If you have any disks written using this I suggest you use the
old version of the handler to copy the files off the disks then
use 211b2 or later to write them back (if it works!).
No further additions to any other handlers, 'cause I've been
adapting various compression routines, to see how easy it would
be to add archive-handling to xfsd.
I might as well mention that I had hoped to replace the rather
awkward DMS uncrunching in file.device, but I couldn't get access
to the source on the Aminet. Oh, didn't you know file.device could
read DMS files? Well I can't recommend it. Or DMS for that matter.
But you will need both, as file.device calls DMS to do the work.
-------------- xfs211b (only released on cover cd) --------------
MAC handler does something at last. You can now do directory
listings and read the data forks of files.
Temporarily disabled ExamineAll support so that ExamineAll should
now work properly. Yes you did read that right. If a handler
doesn't support ExamineAll the Dos emulates it via Examine and
ExamineNext. I'll re-enable it when it's fixed.
On the QL, accented characters should now be completely usable
in filenames, previously they would only read correctly.
Oh, and I've upgraded the x-code utility (to V1.01), and I've
replaced the geometry program with a more general device command
utility called devio (no docs for it but it's simple to use).
Oh, there seems to be some confusion as to the names of the
mountlists. I've made sure they're all named in the same way
(mount.#?).
Finally, I've changed all the flags fields in the mountlists
to make all volumes appear on the Workbench. So if you use
xfsd at the same time as another handler for the same disk,
something strange may happen (unless you edit the flags field
to stop xfsd mounting volume entries - see mount.xfsd).