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- From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:47:14 GMT
- References: <3801.942.uupcb@almac.co.uk> <1993Jan08.020833.4494@microsoft.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta GA
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- In article <1993Jan08.020833.4494@microsoft.com>, philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- > In article <3801.942.uupcb@almac.co.uk> mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson) writes:
- > >PL..>F-Fear- Fear that Using OS/2 and DOS on the same machine would be dangerous
- > >PL.. It is. DOS 6 may make your FAT partitions unreadable by
- > >PL.. OS/2 or other operating systems.
- > >
- > >Congratulations, Phil. You may have put lots of people right off using
- > >MS-DOS 6.0, irrespective of whatever the finalised code actually does.
- >
- > Stacker makes your FAT partitions unreadable by OS's that
- > don't have Stacker available. This hasn't scared people off.
- > The question is whether the benefits of the incompatibility are
- > worth the loss in interoperability.
-
- Stacker does not make your FAT partitions unreadable by OS's that don't have
- Stacker available. Rather it creates a LARGE hidden file on the partition and
- accesses that. Other files can be put on the same partition with no problem and
- can be accessed from other systems without Stacker (can't speak for NT, but OS/2
- works OK.
-
- simon
-