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