make DOS a filesystem?

[Earl H. Kinmonth]

Submitted-by: ucbked at athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)

In article <536 at usenix.ORG> cazier at mbunix.mitre.org (Cazier) writes:
>Since UNIX can support different filesystems, why wouldn't it be possible
>to either define another file structure that would allow UNIX to read/write
>DOS filesystems, or create some device driver that would interface with
>/dev/DOS to read/write DOS files and directories?

It not only can be done, it has been done.  SCO Xenix, for example,
allows reading/writing to a DOS partition.  There is also a set of
tools for doing this on other systems.

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