Re: GS/OS: looking for info on VCB and FCB

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

Yeah, it's your MS-DOS utilities. I hadn't taken a good look at it
until after reading these last couple posts.

Dean


On Sep 27, 9:30 am, "Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>
wrote:
>
> Almost certainly.
>
> Just to clear up a small point. My original "command line-only" tools for
> reading/writing MS-DOS disks were called the "MSDOS Utilities". When I
> created MUG! (MSDOS Utilities Graphic !nterface) it was based on the MSDOS
> Utilities.
>
> Many people referred to the original MSDOS Utilities as the MSDOS Tools.
> Originally I didn't correct this as I thought it was just people
> misremembering the name. But it turns out that in a case of eerily similar
> parallel development, there was a set of command line utilities written for
> Linux called the "MSDOS Tools". When people referred to a GS port of the
> MSDOS Tools, they thought I'd ported the Linux code! In reality, I didn't
> even know about the Linux utilities!
> --
> Peter Watson
> -- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
> -- Impossible!  ;-)