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  2. From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: Re: HPFS compatability with other OS's
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan22.145251.18157@njitgw.njit.edu>
  6. Date: 22 Jan 93 14:52:51 GMT
  7. References: <enk2.66.727573011@po.cwru.edu>
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  9. Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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  13. In article <enk2.66.727573011@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
  14. >I heard a rumor that the coming-soon MS-DOS 6.0 MAGICDRV.SYS file will allow 
  15. >read/write to HPFS format.  Any truth to this?  And if so, will it work?
  16.  
  17. I'd be really surprised if they get DOS to mount HPFS.  Considering
  18. that the OS/2 driver (which is 16-bit code also) occupies about 512K
  19. of memory.  It might be smaller if desiged with the assumption of
  20. single-tasking, but that would cripple Windows (the same way FAT does
  21. now!).
  22.  
  23. They might get an APPLICATION to read the volume, though.  Writing
  24. would be problematic, since OS/2 would sense the changed disk as an
  25. abnormal shutdown and would require you to run CHKDSK on it before
  26. booting again.
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