Win 95/98 file system driver

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Hi ppl,
I am interested in developing a file system driver for windows 95/98
platform. Can someone here help me with where I should start, books,
toolkits that I may need? I greatly appreciate any help.

regards,
Saravanan.

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Purchase the NT IFS kit and the Rajeev Nagar’s book.
Feel free to post further questions here :slight_smile:

----- Original Message -----
From: Saravanan Ramu
To: File Systems Developers
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:54 PM
Subject: [ntfsd] Win 95/98 file system driver

> Hi ppl,
> I am interested in developing a file system driver for windows 95/98
> platform. Can someone here help me with where I should start, books,
> toolkits that I may need? I greatly appreciate any help.
>
> regards,
> Saravanan.
>
>
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All you need to get started is VC and DDK98.
Install Win98 DDK and browse “DDK Documentation” to:
Related Driver Documentation -> Windows 95 Documentation -> Design Guide ->
Win95 DDK Storage Technology Reference ->
Chapter 3 (MS-DOS/Win32 Installable File System) and
Chapter 13 (MS-DOS/Win32 File System Driver Reference).
or search for IFSMGR.

Cheers.
Aleks

At 10:54 AM 6/19/00 , “Saravanan Ramu” wrote:
>Hi ppl,
> I am interested in developing a file system driver for windows 95/98
>platform. Can someone here help me with where I should start, books,
>toolkits that I may need? I greatly appreciate any help.
>
>regards,
>Saravanan.

>----------------------------------------------------------------------
Aleksandr Ryabin
xxxxx@NetManage.com (aka xxxxx@ftp.com)
work: 978-946-5146

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I don’t think the poster needs the NT IFS Kit for Windows 9X development.

See the Windows 9X IFS FAQ at:

http:

Good Luck,

Thomas F. Divine

PCAUSA - Toolkits & Resources For Network Software Developers
NDIS Protocol - TDI Client - Windows 95 Redirector
http:

----- Original Message -----
From: Maxim S. Shatskih
To: File Systems Developers
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 11:13 AM
Subject: [ntfsd] Re: Win 95/98 file system driver

> Purchase the NT IFS kit and the Rajeev Nagar’s book.
> Feel free to post further questions here :slight_smile:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Saravanan Ramu
> To: File Systems Developers
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:54 PM
> Subject: [ntfsd] Win 95/98 file system driver
>
>
> > Hi ppl,
> > I am interested in developing a file system driver for windows
95/98
> > platform. Can someone here help me with where I should start, books,
> > toolkits that I may need? I greatly appreciate any help.
> >
> > regards,
> > Saravanan.
> ></http:></http:>

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Hi Saravanan,

You can download the Win98 DDK for free from :

http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/ddk98.htm

Use the Win95 portion of it to develop a FSD for both 95 and 98.

If you don’t feel like paying any money, write your driver in assembly
language, and download nmaker.exe, ml.exe, and link.exe from microsofts
site and compile the ‘generic’ driver source code. Otherwise buy VC,
although most of the DDK samples are in asm.

You are in the wrong forum for discussing 95/98 FSDs, although most of us
are experienced in writing them, myself included, you ought to find
somewhere else to discuss them.

Regards,
Graham Allen

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Hi ppl,
I am interested in developing a file system driver for windows 95/98
platform. Can someone here help me with where I should start, books,
toolkits that I may need? I greatly appreciate any help.

regards,
Saravanan.

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Win9x DDK is all you’ve got. It pretty much covers everything you will need.
Get familiar with all IFSMGR and IOS services and you are ready to go. Let me
know if you run into any problem. I cant help you with network redirectors
although they are similar to local FSDs.

Raja

<< Hi ppl,
I am interested in developing a file system driver for windows 95/98
platform. Can someone here help me with where I should start, books,
toolkits that I may need? I greatly appreciate any help.

regards,
Saravanan.
>>

7

NT IFSKit is not for 98 FSD developments :slight_smile: Start with learning IFSMGR and
IOS services, take a look at IFSMGR_RegisterFSD and you will get an idea.

<< Purchase the NT IFS kit and the Rajeev Nagar’s book.
Feel free to post further questions here :slight_smile: >>