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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Block Device drivers in DOS session
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.175934.4057@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Dec12.174750.72444@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:59:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.174750.72444@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> etl1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (EMIL THOMAS LERCH) writes:
- >This is sort of a repost, but I need to do some file sharing in a sort of peer
- >to peer setting, but it's not large enough to use a network. The problem is
- >that OS/2 won't let you use block device drivers in a DOS session. This is
- >really important to me, so if anyone knows of a workaround or program I could
- >use to allow me to do this I'd appreciate it. I got one response last time I
- >posted, but I only got the first line of the response. Thanks.
-
- You can use a specific DOS session. See Appendix E of your
- Installation Guide and/or the online Command Reference under VMDISK.
-
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