From owner-mint@fishpool.com Wed Aug 6 14:10:53 2003 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:57:28 +0200 From: Adam Klobukowski To: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] MetaDOS developer documentation Message-Id: <20030806135728.3e10c734.atari@gabo.pl> In-Reply-To: References: <20030806132958.48b17f55.atari@gabo.pl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: atari@gabo.pl Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:00:47 +0200 (CEST) Standa Opichal wrote: > Hi! > > I've been searching this too for some time. Noone seems to have it > except Julian Reschke on his rumorously dead TT HDD and he won't give > it public anyway as he stated it is copyrighted. Since some time I > don't care. The only future is FreeMiNT (especially when we got the > information that there won't be any MagiC update for Atari) and if > someone need the MetaDOS functionality then he should only use the > BetaDOS (recently updated to version 3.12). > > This, of course, still means that there is not documentation for it. > Well, the binary is quite small so you can dissassemble it if you want > > (just as we did in ARAnyM team to find out the bug in Pexec() - fixed > in BetaDOS v3.12). > > For .DOS driver sources you can get the cookfs.dos from Julian's > homepage or the hostfs.dos driver sources from the aranym CVS. I don't > have any .BOS driver sources however. > > Maybe we can ask the BetaDOS author to write some documentation for > that, but again what would be the purpose for dying utility? Yep, thats a good idea, mail on the way ;) -- Semper Fidelis Adam Klobukowski atari@gabo.pl