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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Possible (re)convert from Linux - specific questions
Date: 21 Sep 1995 09:23:15 +0200
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Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> wrote:

> Wilko> In general: you are most welcome to hack msdosfs into a more
usable state.

>Given the amount (i.e. zero) of experience I have doing driver, kernel or
>file system work, I don't think my hacking would be welcome :-)). But, I
>could volunteer to help test out new versions (AFTER I get my FreeBSD
>partitions backed up :-)).

Lame excuse. :-))

We've all been starting to hack that code some day...

Believe me, it's easier than you think.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)