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- From: tpa10@ccc.amdahl.com (Thomas P. Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 files to Coherent using HPFS?
- Message-ID: <d4PS02gG1dt901@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 16:13:40 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.113237.12689@phillip.edu.au>
- Reply-To: tpa10@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Thomas P. Anderson)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Aug13.113237.12689@phillip.edu.au> t9114145@phillip.edu.au writes:
- >Is anyone using Coherent on the same HD as OS/2 2.0? I am wondering if
- >I will still be able to transfer files to and from the two partitions
- >if I choose OS/2's HPFS as opposed to the DOS FAT file system. Coherent
- >supplies utilities for reading/writing etc. to a dos partition, will these
- >still work (will OS/2 intercept and translate?) or will new utilities
- >be required? If the latter, where can they be found?
- >
- >I will stick with the FAT if the answer to both of the above questions is
- >no, as transfer between the partitions will be very important.
- >
- >--
- >
- >Adam Eberbach Computer Science student, RMIT. t9114145@phillip.edu.au
- > "We don' need no stinkin' signatures!"
-
- I sure wouldn't count on it! I just installed OS/2 2.0, DOS 5.0, and
- Coherent 3.2 (still waiting for my upgrade to arrive -HINT HINT-) on a
- 200+ meg hard drive. I avoided the HPFS like the plague, as the OS/2
- doc indicates that you will not be able to do file sharing with your DOS
- partition and, I beleive, you CANNOT put OS/2 on an extended DOS
- partition if you use HPFS. If DOS-OS/2 aren't going to share, I doubt
- very much that Coherent will pick up the slack. With the FAT system
- you have the best chance of sharing between all three systems
- EXCEPT THAT Coh 3.2 CAN'T DEAL WITH DOS 5.0'sFILE SYSTEM!!
- (that's another hint for MWC).
-