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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: YAKI: floppy:/
From:       Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz () linuxqa ! com>
Date:       2000-12-21 10:18:11
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From end user perspective - commit now...

You don't know how much people have problems with Floppy drives under Linux.
Just join #linux on IRC and see it for yourself...

However, I suggest to put it as disabled, and can be turned on by the GUI..

Just my $0.02 :)

Hetz

aleXXX wrote:
> 
> Yet Another KDE Ioslave: floppy:/
> 
> I have it here on my harddisk and later today it will have all required
> functionality, but *no* error  handling yet, this will probably work around
> new year, since I will be away until then.
> 
> The ioslave is a wrapper around the mtools and supports everything mtools
> support: all normal fat/vfat floppies, higher formatted floppies, ZIP-drives,
> JAZ-drives (both not tested), several platforms.
> Initially I wanted to do everything myself (dev/fd0 and so on), but after I
> read the mtools man page and found how much this supports I considered it to
> much work to do everything again.
> 
> So, wait with committing to kdebase/ioslave until I have the error handling
> done, commit now to kdenonbeta and later move to kdebase, or commit now as it
> is to kdebase ?
> 
> Bye
> Alex
> 
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Hetz Ben Hamo
Hardware Research dept.
Aduva Inc.
 
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