Release 4.0  Copyright ã1996 by NeXT Software, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

NeXT System Administration Release Notes: 
The DOS Filesystem

This file contains release notes for the DOS filesystem. 

Notes Specific to Release 3.3 Patch

Bugs Fixed in Release 4.0

These bugs have been fixed in Release 4.0

·	Renaming files when the dos pathname is > 32 bytes caused the kernel to panic and also did not test for the target name already existing.  This has now been fixed.

Notes Specific to Release 3.3

New Features

The following new feature has been added to the DOS filesystem since Release 3.2.

·	Support for reading and writing removable DOS hard drives.

Bugs Fixed in Release 3.3

These bugs have been fixed in Release 3.3

·	Using large DOS hard drives often led to erroneous data when reading and reporting disk information, and led to corruption when writing.  These corruption issues have been fixed.

·	DOS filesystem performance has been improved significantly under many circumstances.

·€	Under a number of circumstances in 3.1 and 3.2, certain DOS partitions wouldn't mount.  All known instances of this problem have been addressed.

·	If you tried to use a floppy that had been formatted with Norton Safe Format, the disk label used to be displayed incorrectly.

·	Sometimes, DOS wasn't listed as a possible option in the workspace initialization panel.