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- From: wjb5106@rigel.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: DOS and HPFS
- Message-ID: <18AUG199211455316@rigel.tamu.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 16:45:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.054401.25666@sarah.albany.edu> <1992Aug18.065952.12344@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Aug18.065952.12344@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes...
- >pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet wrote:
- >> If I format my hard drive as one large partition, and use HPFS, does that
- >> mean that I cannot use a DOS prompt anymore, since DOS will only recognize
- >> FAT? How about DOS in a Window?
- >> Or is the OS2 prompt *completely* DOS compatible?
- >
- >Running a DOS window from OS/2 will give you access to your HPFS
- >partition with no problems. Usually almost everything you would want to
- >do in a DOS window you can do in an OS/2 window anyway.
- >
- >The only time you can't access the HPFS drive is if you boot DOS from a
- >floppy (or another HDD) or if you boot a specific DOS version into a VDM
- >through a DOS image.
- >
-
- This is not entirely correct. HPFS partitions can be made available to
- specific DOS versions booted into VDMs under OS/2. All you need to do
- is add the fsfilter.sys driver to the config.sys file for the floppy
- (and put fsfilter.sys on the floppy, of course).
-
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