Here is a new tool to control a lot of things of the new FAT/VFAT/FAT32 filesystem in FreeMiNT 1.15. It can run as programm or acc. You can change a lot of options on the fly. A english/german hypertext follows. Christian Felsch felsch@tu-harburg.de short description: ================== 1. select a drive 2. all non supported options are disabled 3. General options: VFAT - enable/disable VFAT extension on this drive - supported from NEWFATFS MagiC sym-links - enable/disable MagiC style symlinks on this drive; - WinNT doesn't like MagiC style symlinks for example, that's why exist this option - supported from NEWFATFS Write-Back Cache - enable/disable Write-Back mode on this drive Write-Back means that write access is buffered; this will extremly speedup a lot of operations It's not recommended to disable this option on MinixFS - always safe (also if operations are performed at the moment on this drive) - supported from MinixFS and NEWFATFS 4. Name mode: - supported from NEWFATFS - only available for if VFAT extension is disabled - restrict allowed characters for new file names - GEMDOS - all GEMDOS characters, default - ISO - characters after ISO (characters, digits, underscore) - MSDOS - all MSDOS chracters are allowed 5. FAT32: - supported from NEWFATFS - only available on FAT32 partitions - FAT Mirroring enable/disable FAT Mirroring that means all FAT or only the specified FAT is updated if you disable FAT Mirroring, you must first specify the active FAT, active FAT can be 1 to 'Number of FATs' 6. Info: - print some information about this drive and the description of the filesystem running 7. Change - apply the actual settings Quit - leave this dialog without any change Change + Quit - set actual settings and leave dialog Have fun. If there is any question ask me or Christian Felsch. Frank Naumann <fnaumann@freemint.de> Magdeburg, der 08.10.1998