[openbeos] Re: The importance of a FAT32-driver
- From: "MPX" <mpx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:23:24 +0100
Ehm sorry to say.....but my windows is pretty fast.......but my beos is
faster when comes to moving/copying etc playing music while opening 20 other
programs..but then ofcourse i run dan0 (if that got anything to do with
it)----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregor Rosenauer" <rosenauer@xxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 7:48 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: The importance of a FAT32-driver
> François wrote:
> > This has to do with the mpeg.extractor, which instead of reading the
file
> > directly spawns an "mpegscanner" thread, that takes the CPU anyway until
it has
> > read it entirely.
> Still present in the new mpeg.extractor (MediaKit/Beta1) ?
> I'm also using Carlos Hasan's mpeg-decoder, but that still uses Be's
extractor I suppose.
>
> > I assume you mean the odd characters BeOS allows you to have in
filenames,
> > that windows dislikes ? maybe renaming them should work.
> hmm... no, I just tested with a file "892297996.pdf", created in BeOS on a
FAT32-disk, could not be deleted from within Windows 2000/SP2. (error "has
been altered externally").
>
> > > Whoa?! Where can I get it? Hope it's NT-compatible? :)
> > Hmm, read this:
> ah I remember - however, this was only about the unofficial vbfs-driver.
> I'm talking about porting the new OBFS-driver to WinNT...
> IIRC custom filesystems can also have attributes in NT, which would be
cool in some way (NT-apps won't use them, but they'd be visible and editable
if writing-support was also ported).
>
> Regards,
> Gregor
> --
> Gregor B. Rosenauer
> http://www.hugh.at.tf
>
>
>
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