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- From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
- Subject: Re: Bernoulli & OS/2 questions B4 I buy.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.143552.22958@netcom.com>
- Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
- References: <1992Nov20.142513@IASTATE.EDU> <1992Nov21.080314.15852@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:35:52 GMT
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- ttomisin@news.ccutah.edu (Tom M. Tomisin) writes:
-
- >If you format your cartridges FAT the system uses them as a big disk drive,
- >and you can remove the cartridges as much as you want. On the HPFS formated
- >cartridge the cartridge can only be removed on a system shutdown so that
- >system and HPFS can be updated.
-
- It seems to me that it ought to be possible to write a utility that
- would close the HPFS file system on the non-system drive and another
- utility to re-open the HPFS file system on that drive after the
- cartridge had been replaced.
- --
- Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
-
- GE knew there was lots of money to be made in the diagnostic medical
- machine field since it was only a matter of time before people started
- getting sick from the effects of all of GE's toxic and radioactive
- waste dumping. I expect GE to get into the Mortuary business next.
-