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- From: jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
- Subject: Re: FSFILTER.SYS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.142405.23478@nmt.edu>
- Organization: New Mexico Tech
- References: <83J4PB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:24:05 GMT
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- (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?
- >
- >Is there ANY known way to read the files on the HPFS
- >partition without booting OS/2?
- >
-
- I THINK (please correct me if I'm wrong) that fsfilter.sys is used when
- one literally BOOTs a specific DOS kernel from within OS/2 (the "DOS from
- Drive A" icon). If fsfilter.sys is used to boot dos straight, THEN its useless.
-
- -John
-
-
- --
- MS-DOS is an interrupt handler with a brain-dead interface.
- Windows is a pathetic attempt at.....????
- OS/2 is the future....that's here right now!
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