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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.

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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