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- From: x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOS 6 Beta Looks for
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.121208.7154@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 12:12:08 EST
- References: <3801.942.uupcb@almac.co.uk> <1993Jan08.020833.4494@microsoft.com> <C0JIEr.AuJ@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
- Lines: 36
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- In article <C0JIEr.AuJ@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>, aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler) writes:
- > 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
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- YOu know, I don't know what this talk about Stacker being unreadable
- is, my Stacker partition has been readable for quite some time= ~~
- You simply have to have a DOS 5.0 paritition and have the
- stacker device driver in itz config.sys. The only problem is that
- you can only read the stacke r drives, not write to them.
-
- -Brad
-
- p.s. sorry for the typos, I am using Pmcomm which is crud, having
- problems with the delete keys.
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