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First post2011-09-03 09:36 +0100
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  HOSTFS cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2011-09-03 09:36 +0100
    Re: HOSTFS Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-09-03 16:50 +0200
    Re: HOSTFS Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-09 12:43 +0100

#683 — HOSTFS

Fromcferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid
Date2011-09-03 09:36 +0100
SubjectHOSTFS
Message-ID<22aed70c52.cferris@cferris.freeuk.com>
Is there a web/site on information of 'HOSTFS' - ie how it works?

Would it be possible to use it on a 'RISC OS' machine to read/write to a
'FAT32' disc as per Filecore.

Thanks
-- 
Colin Ferris Cornwall UK

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#686

FromRick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk>
Date2011-09-03 16:50 +0200
Message-ID<4e623e8a$0$30749$ba4acef3@reader.news.orange.fr>
In reply to#683
On 03/09/2011 10:36, cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid wrote:

> Is there a web/site on information of 'HOSTFS' - ie how it works?

The source code? It isn't normally something you want to be playing with.


> Would it be possible to use it on a 'RISC OS' machine to read/write to a
> 'FAT32' disc as per Filecore.

No.

It is an emulator interface. It implements a basic filing system that 
instead of talking to emulated hardware (i.e. and IDE port) it talks to 
the emulator which in turn talks to Windows (or what-have-you). In this 
way, actual files can be accessible to both systems - both the host and 
the emulated RISC OS machine.

HOSTFS is a front-end for an image filing system that calls HostFS SWIs. 
There is no module that provides these SWIs. Instead the emulator 
intercepts the SWI call and, if it is the HostFS SWIs, provides the 
desired functions, patches up the ARM registers, and returns as if the 
SWI had been completed. So, in short, it won't work on a real machine.


Best wishes,

Rick.

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#704

FromChris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net>
Date2011-09-09 12:43 +0100
Message-ID<520fffc80achrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net>
In reply to#683
In article <22aed70c52.cferris@cferris.freeuk.com>,
   <cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid> wrote:
> Would it be possible to use it on a 'RISC OS' machine to read/write
> to a 'FAT32' disc as per Filecore.

No. What is wrong with Fat32fs?

-- 
Chris Johnson

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