On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:50:17PM +0000, Tony Moore wrote:
> Running RPCemu v0.8.6 RISC OS 4.39 on a Windows Vista machine:
> 
> Is there a problem with HostFS, or have I misunderstood something?

No, this is working entirely as expected. HostFS doesn't try to convert 
filetypes between host and emulated FS, It's primary purpose is to be as 
accurate a RISC OS filesystem (for within RISC OS) as possible. It gets 
used as a very convenient way of transfering zip install files onto the 
emulator. It is also fully compatible with two other common methods of 
storing filetype info (FTPc, with add filetypes on, and RISC OS NFS), 
making it easy to import backed up files from real machines. As such 
mapping between filetypes on host and emulated system is not in any 
way on the roadmap for hostfs [1]

Peter

[1] Mainly due to experience of other emulators that attempt this and 
rapidly turn a file tree into soemthing that doesn't work well on 
either the host or emulator.

-- 
Peter Howkins
[email protected]

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