Re: Floppy disk access in Gnome - followup.

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

Yes this seems to be the general idea.  I have no idea what would be
involved implementing this.  Writing a libmtools seems to be a thought.

And yes I know software other than GNOME (or rather maybe GTK+ if it was
part of the GTK+ filedialog widget) wouldn't be able to use it right
away but hopefully OpenOffice and Mozilla could be patched.

On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 18:20, Ian McKellar wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 03:34, George Farris wrote:
> > 
> > (2)
> > The next comment was that "You don't have to mount floppies - just use
> > tar with the raw device (/dev/rfloppy or whatever)."
> 
> My personally preferred insane solution is to write a FAT gnome-vfs
> module that knows how to access floppy devices directly. This is a
> similar thing to what we do for Audio CD access in GnomeVFS/Nautilus.
> This won't work with non-GNOME programs, but I don't really care about
> them :)
> 
> Ian
> 
> PS: We could use the same magic for accessing MacOS HFS formated disks.
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