Re: [Sheflug] Apologies: Writing to NTFS

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 22:32, Jon Masters wrote:
> | I didn't get it HTML and quite frankly I couldn't care less if it did
> | arrive as HTML; it's the superior format.
> 
> Not starting a flamefest but I disagree with that - there is nothing a
> plaintext mail cannot say that HTML does with pointless formatting.

Rubbish, it gets quoting wrong for a start. 

HTML will flow the text to whatever particular window size you have,
which is good for big screens like mine. I can also sensibly use
non-mono-spaced fonts too (which is easier on the eyes). 

youmaythinkformattingisawasteoftimesothistextwillprobablysuityoudowntothegroundeasertoread

> | You can apparently make use of the Windows driver for reasonably good
> | read/write support, but that's seriously dodgy.
> 
> Details or links please?
> 
> Not that I doubt this is possible just that I think it is unlikely.

Why unlikely? Same platform. It's not that hard to call code in a
library. mplayer has been doing this for many years now, as has Wine.

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

> I have heard of this working with Windows 98 but last I heard the
> project was not being maintained so can anyone ellaborate?

I send a reference on my last e-mail to the list.

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/winext2fsd/
	http://www.tuningsoft.com/projects/projects.htm

Google exists, you know ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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