Re: USB memory keys -- the plot thickens

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From: mbbr
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:06

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Dickless Davie tholen@antispam.ham the irrelevant Ignoranus whined and
tholed:
> Ilya Zakharevich writes:
>
> >> But wait, there's more!  I copied an executable file from a directory on
> >> the hard disk to the memory key.  The program works just fine when I
> >> launch it from the hard disk.  However, when I try to launch it from the
> >> memory key, OS/2 complains that it can't run the program in an OS/2
> >> session (SYS0191).  The help associated with message 191 says that either
> >> the program is a DOS application or not compatible with OS/2.  Well, it
> >> is definitely not a DOS application, and it most certainly is compatible
> >> with OS/2, because it runs just fine from the hard disk.  I also tried it
> >> with a RAM disk, and the same problem (SYS0191) occurs, so the problem is
> >> apparently related to being run from a FAT16 partition.  Does anybody have
> >> a hard disk partition formatted as FAT16 that can test whether the same
> >> problem occurs in that situation?
> >>
> >> So, question #3?  Why should it matter whether the program resides on an
> >> HPFS partition, JFS partition, or FAT16 partition?
>
> > This should not matter.  What MAY matter is whether the program is
> > launched from a removable disk or not.  Obviously, programs are loaded
> > from a removable media in a different way than from permanent storage.
>
> Is a RAM disk considered "removable media"?

What do you think, if you think you can, Dickless?

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