M E S S Y D O S   F I L E   S Y S T E M   H A N D L E R
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        by Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                   11-Feb-1990

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    MSH is (C) Copyright 1989,1990 by Olaf Seibert. All rights reserved.
    Freely distributable, except that it may not be distributed for profit
    without permission from the author. Hereby, Fred Fish explicitly gets
    permission to include MSH in his library of freely distributable Amiga
    software.
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    This is the first really public release of the MessyFileSystem, or MSH
for short. It has circulated among a small audience, and I entered it in a
programming contest held by the German 'Amiga-Magazin'. They were too dumb
to let me win or offer me a contract, so here goes their opportunity to
make some money. Not mine, however, since I am going to try the sh*r*ware
concept. So, if you like the program, feel free to send me some $$, or even
$$$ if you feel like it.

    What _is_ MSH ? Well, if you ever heard of CrossDos, it is about the
same thing. Only better, since I wrote it :-) If you never heard of
CrossDos: MSH is a (set of) programs that enable you to use IBM-PC
diskettes in your Amiga, just as if they were regular Amiga disks.
Something you probably thought or were told to be impossible!

    There exist other programs that will copy files to and/or from messy
disks, but they do just that: copy. You are not able to use any other
program directly with files you have stored on a messy disk. But, with MSH,
this is finally possible. It seems that several people at about the same
time decided that it was time to write a program like MSH. Hence there is
also CrossDos. The fundamental difference between MSH and CrossDos is that
you immediately get a fully functional version of MSH, and you even get the
source! (And I am a non-commercial hobbyist).

    Of course, if you get the source, you won't get any warranty. The idea
is that if it works, you send me some $$ (preferably in some stronger
currency than the dollar, though); if it fails to work, you can fix it
yourself.

    Well, enough talk. Some technical information can be found in the files
msh.man and dev.man. Fanmail and money will always reach me at the
following address:

Olaf Seibert
Beek 5
5815 CS  Merselo
The Netherlands

    Ordinary mail can also be addressed to the following address, which is
guaranteed to change before September 1991:

Olaf Seibert
Vossendijk 149
6534 TN  Nijmegen
The Netherlands