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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: HPFS from DOS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.184425.4339@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 18:44:25 GMT
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- In article <gePJR_q00Uh_81KoVF@andrew.cmu.edu> dg4k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Brian Greenfield) writes:
- >This was discussed a couple of months ago, but it was not of much
- >concern to me then. Could someone please tell me which driver I need to
- >load in order to see an HPFS partition when I use a specific version of
- >DOS (in a window) from Drive A?
-
- There is a file in your /OS2/MDOS directory called FSFILTER.SYS. Copy
- this file to your DOS boot floppy or image file. Include the
- following line at the top of the DOS floppy (or image file)
- CONFIG.SYS:
-
- DEVICE=FSFILTER.SYS
-
- Now, the disk will be able to read OS/2 disk volumes. Note that
- filenames not conforming to the DOS 8.3 convention will not be visible
- to the specific DOS session, just like in the emulator.
-
- If you boot from an image file, you'll notice that you can't access
- drive A: from the specific DOS session. This is because your image
- file is a virtual drive A:. To disconnect the image file and
- reconnect your physical drive A:, use the command
-
- FSACCESS A:
-
- The FSACCESS program is located in your \OS2\MDOS directory. I
- suggest that you add this directory to your image file's PATH.
-
- A few other notes: After reconnecting A:, you won't be able to read
- the image file, and you won't be able to adjust it, you you may not
- want to put the FSACCESS command in the image's AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- After reconnecting A:, the COMSPEC variable will be pointing at A: and
- you'll have to insert a DOS diskette in drive A: whenever you quit an
- application. I copied the DOS COMMAND.COM to a location on my hard
- disk (D:\MSDOS5) and used the SHELL= parameter on the image's
- CONFIG.SYS file to use that one. This prevents that annoyance.
-
- Most of the programs in the \OS2\MDOS directory are incompatible with
- specific DOS sessions. You may want to copy your favorite utilities
- from your DOS diskette(s) to a location on your hard disk (I used
- D:\MSDOS5 again) and place that directory first on the image's PATH.
-
- Just a few pointers to make life simpler.
-
-
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