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- From: steveg@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: FSFILTER.SYS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.190342.12282@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 19:03:42 GMT
- References: <83J4PB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org> <1992Aug26.142405.23478@nmt.edu>
- Sender: steveg@iplmail (Steve Gabrilowitz)
- Organization: Martin Marietta
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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.
- |> >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.
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- This is correct. I would think, though, that it should be possible to write a
- DOS device driver that will provide access to a HPFS partition when OS/2 is not
- running - has anybody thought about creating such a beast? What would be
- involved anyhow?
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