Many thanks! Interesting link. On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 21:52, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> If it was in fact removed from the "official" MS-DOS, and one wanted to > (re)implement it anyway, perhaps browsing the code of the open-source > recreation of OS/2 would help? It has a FAT32 driver which is compatible > with the OS/2 IFS and, as I recall, OS/2 was more of a direct successor to > MS-DOS than Windows ever was, so perhaps its code would be more helpful to > a DOS dev as opposed to the Windows versions. > > Not sure, I haven't dug too deeply into that myself, but hope it possibly > helps. > > https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/fat32/ > > > > Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/> secure email. > > ------- Original Message ------- > On Monday, February 20th, 2023 at 2:58 PM, Aitor Santamaría < > aitor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, Ralf!! > > So I thought, but I have read a couple of references (such as the > following in Wikipedia, but not the only one) by which the IFS was present > in MS-DOS 4.X, of course as well as in OS/2 and Windows: > > Installable File System - Wikipedia > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installable_File_System> > > Apparently, there was some support for it that was probably removed for > MS-DOS 5.0 and later. Part of the mystery (to me) of MS-DOS 4.X! :) > > In RBIL, the only reference I've found is to IFSHLP.SYS, which was a > Windows mean to guess what has been installed before getting into protected > mode, so I am not sure is if this has to be with the IFS that was planned > and implemented in MS-DOS 4.0. > > Aitor > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 18:27, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2/19/2023 5:38 PM, Aitor Santamaría wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Does anyone know if the IFS (Installable File System) API is >> > documented anywhere? >> > >> Just checked in my archive of docs, and there is a MSCDEX.TXT, which >> describes the interface for the CD-ROM "network redirector". >> >> It can apparently be found online at >> https://cybermax.tripod.com/mscdex.txt >> >> >> Ralf >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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