[TAG] drvspace under LINUX

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jim Doutt (jdoutt at whoi.edu):

> I would like to see the files inside these drvspace files.  I have read 
> over dmsdos, but as far as I can tell it was never ported to the 2.6 
> kernel.

I think your only direct access under Linux to those files will be to
use the real Microsoft drvspace.bin driver under the "dosemu" emulator.
This apparently works well enough, and is detailed here:

http://trillian.randomstuff.org.uk/~stephen/linux/msfilesys.shtml

Over the longer term, you are strongly advised to extract those files
from compressed storage, if you care about them.  Not only is DriveSpace
(and DoubleSpace) pretty unreliable -- and antique -- but also it's just
way too darned much trouble to deal with this stuff on an ongoing basis,
in my opinion.  Good luck!

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Cheers,                   
Rick Moen                                     Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar?
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