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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
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- Subject: Re: FSFILTER.SYS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.210306.25382@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 21:03:06 GMT
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- In article <83J4PB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org> bbs.dennis@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Dennis Yelle) writes:
- >Has anyone here gotten FSFILTER.SYS to do anything useful?
- >
- >I put "DEVICE=FSFILTER.SYS" in the CONFIG.SYS file for MS-DOS 5.0
- >in the hopes that it would allow me to read and write the HPFS
- >partition on my disk from DOS. It didn't have ANY effect.
- >It did not even produce an error message.
- >
- >Am I confused about what it is supposed to do, and/or how
- >to make it do it?
-
- You're quite confused. FSFILTER.SYS does nothing for MS-DOS. If you
- boot a DOS disk into an OS/2 virtual machine (like with the "DOS From
- Drive A:" icon), then the FSFILTER.SYS driver on THAT boot disk will
- give the virtual machine access to the OS/2 file system.
-
- >Is there ANY known way to read the files on the HPFS
- >partition without booting OS/2?
-
- Nope.
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