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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- From: lemieux@eecg.toronto.edu (Guy Gerard Lemieux)
- Subject: Re: DOS and HPFS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.203832.22364@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- References: <1992Aug18.054401.25666@sarah.albany.edu> <1992Aug18.065952.12344@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 00:38:32 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
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- >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?
- >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.
-
- Add DEVICE=FSFILTER.SYS to your config.sys on the DOS image floppy.
- (And copy FSFILTER from \OS2\MDOS onto your floppy, of course).
- Then you can see all 8.3 files on an HPFS volume under your DOS.VMD
-
- Guy
-