Re: Coming soon to your mailbox (part 2)

tom ehlert <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:20:55 +0100
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1'st, Imre's list of implemented features looks rather
complete. really looking forward to it.

though a log, what has been done (changed), as suggest by eric,
would be nice.

in addition, for some actions (like giving 2 copies for crosslinked files),
I would prefer an (optional) interactive mode, where the files can be
deleted as
well, because a deleted EXE file is probably better then a damaged one.

alain wrote>
>What language are you using? My suggestion is that you just compile the
fat32
>enabled version in protected mode. Don't bother to use XMS, just go
straight
>to 32 bit mode, it is much much easyer, faster and a xms version will
never
>be any better.

I strongly disagree. 
it's not easier - reread eric's dissertation about direct disk access for
DOS32

it's not faster - chkdsk's speed is entirely determined by disk access
speed.

xms version is better - as long as we don't have a DMPI compliant EMM386, 
or want to run it on XT's (probably no need for FAT32), or 286's



tom