FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: OT Re: drive letter vs. mounten

["theUser BL" <theuserbl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> this discussion is best on the GlassElevator

But for fundamental things, it is here better.
For example: OBOS will be completly support POSIX. And this will be 
integrated at the beginning. And not at first re-creating a BeOS R5 system, 
and then write _alle_ the extensions.


> > So, under BeOS you have a lot of more to do, then under Windows. At the
> > result, in this part MS-Windows is more user-friendly.
>
> Nope. This is a hardware problem: the floppy-drives in PCs do not
> automatically inform the operating system that media has been inserted /
> changed. If this were the case it would be possible to use BeOS's node
> monitoring to auto-mount the floppy. This is maybe how it works on PowerPC
> / BeBox anyway.

A perfect operating system support all hardware at best.
If you have a floppy-drive, which informed the OS, the OS then mount it 
automatical.
But if you have a floppy-drive, which don't inform your system, it must 
support this, too - so good the system can.


> Volume names are much more userfriendly that drive letters
> - they are much easier to remember: (OS, apps, data, cd-rom vs. c:, d: f:,
> e:).

That what I have said.
Instead of
a:, b:, c: it is better to use fd1:, fd2, hda1, etc.
So a prompt can look like
fd1:mydirectory/nextdirectory>


> > But is it not possible, to create a OBOS, which is a hybrid of both? For
> > example a "mdir", which is better integrated in the system. Or a command
> > called "mls", which worked like "mdir" (that mls don't mount a floppy),
> > but the output then looks more like "ls" and not so DOSish.
>
> The Terminal is running the bash-shell and running built-in commands like
> dir and ls.

Thats wrong.
"ls" is part of the GNU-tools and a seperat program. The build-in-commands 
are "for" for example.


> You need to change shells to change these and while some might
> prefer another shell (csh, tcsh, ksh, ...) they all do this in much the
> same way anyway. The dos shell, which is pretty much deprecated is now so
> well hidden in XP that most users will probably never find it, is
> castrated: using "\" instead of "/" because CP/M did.

I know, that the Windows-Shell have a lot disadvantiges. And I don't want to 
vindicate the COMMAND.COM or CMD.EXE.
I only say, that a not mounted drive (like under MS-Windows/DOS), have some 
advantages.

Greatings
TheUserBL

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