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- From: schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: FSFILTER.SYS
- References: <83J4PB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org> <1992Aug26.142405.23478@nmt.edu>
- Originator: schmiher@hphalle8f.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:23:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.102323.10793@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Aug26.142405.23478@nmt.edu>, jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:
- |> (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.
- ...
-
- |> 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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- You are right. Look at the size of fsfilter.sys. Something
- around 25K if I remember that right. Anyway, it's small compared
- to the files related to HPFS support in OS/2. You cannot put that in
- such a small driver, can you? Besides, HPFS is proteced mode code...
- From my point of view, FSFILTER.SYS serves to access a HPFS
- system that is *already* running. That means OS/2 must be booted.
-