> But just because you *can* do a thing doesn't mean you *should*.
It will suck for performance reason. That does not matter, as FAT
sucks, anyway.
> I also don't understand the contention that implementing a FAT
>module for midnight would allow you to "access floppies" from user
>space - you can do that now, anyway, and always have. Open /dev/fd0,
>do your thing, and go.
There are mtools that can do that, but they are not integrated nicely
with midnight, and that would be even slower than mc is.
Pavel
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