Re: FSFILTER.SYS

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From: John Reynolds
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:24

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(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.

-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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