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<H2><A NAME="s2">2. UMSDOS: Where is it ?</A></H2>
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.1">2.1 Copyright and License</A>
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<P>This document is Copyright (c) 1995, Jacques Gelinas.
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<P>It may be distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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You should have received a copy with it. If not, you can view it at
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http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html.
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.2">2.2 History</A>
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<P>The <EM>Umsdos</EM> project was started in 1992 and made available
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to the net in January 1994 as a patch. It was included in the standard
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kernel distribution in July, starting with kernel 1.1.36.
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<P><EM>Umsdos</EM> was early adopted in the <EM>Slackware</EM> distribution
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even before it was officially included in the official kernel.
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<P><EM>Umsdos</EM> was improved starting at kernel 1.1.60. Its performance
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has been dramatically enhanced, especially for writing. Since 1.1.70
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(around this), it is stable again.
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<P>A major bug was solve in <EM>Linux</EM> 1.2.2. This bug was causing
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some grief to users since the beginning (some file were
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silently renamed, giving the sad impression that they were
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deleted). Beware that <EM>Slackware</EM> 2.2 is still shipping
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release 1.2.1 of the kernel, so has this bug.
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.3">2.3 Availability</A>
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<P>It is available as a patch for kernel 1.0.x. It is built-in
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for kernel 1.2. It can be compiled in or load as a module.
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Beware that for now, if you intend to load <EM>umsdos</EM> as a module,
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you must also use the Ms-DOS fs as a module. This come from
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a limitation in the module system (some symbols are only
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export when the drivers is installed as a module).
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.4">2.4 Distribution supporting it</A>
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<P>So far, I think only <EM>Slackware</EM> does support it. I am surely
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wrong, so please send me info to correct this.
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.5">2.5 Home site</A>
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<P>The home site for <EM>Umsdos</EM> is sunsite.unc.edu. Look in
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the directory <CODE>/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/umsdos</CODE>.
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.6">2.6 Technical documentation</A>
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</H2>
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<P>There is quite a lot of documentation about the internal of
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<EM>Umsdos</EM>. It is available both in <CODE>HTML</CODE> and text format
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at the same location as the utilities.
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<P>As far as I know, the <CODE>HTML</CODE> version is not available online
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on any web site. You must down-load it and "UN-tar" it and
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read it locally.
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<H2><A NAME="ss2.7">2.7 Who wrote it</A>
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<P>Jacques Gelinas jacques@solucorp.qc.ca
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