Re: [MiNT] MetaDOS developer documentation

[Adam Klobukowski <atari@gabo.pl>]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:00:47 +0200 (CEST)
Standa Opichal <opichals@seznam.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I've been searching this too for some time. Noone seems to have it
> except Julian Reschke on his rumorously dead TT HDD and he won't give
> it public anyway as he stated it is copyrighted. Since some time I
> don't care. The only future is FreeMiNT (especially when we got the
> information that there won't be any MagiC update for Atari) and if
> someone need the MetaDOS functionality then he should only use the
> BetaDOS (recently updated to version 3.12).
> 
> This, of course, still means that there is not documentation for it. 
> Well, the binary is quite small so you can dissassemble it if you want
> 
> (just as we did in ARAnyM team to find out the bug in Pexec() - fixed
> in BetaDOS v3.12).
> 
> For .DOS driver sources you can get the cookfs.dos from Julian's
> homepage or the hostfs.dos driver sources from the aranym CVS. I don't
> have any .BOS driver sources however.
> 
> Maybe we can ask the BetaDOS author to write some documentation for
> that, but again what would be the purpose for dying utility?

Yep, thats a good idea, mail on the way ;)

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Adam Klobukowski
atari@gabo.pl