Re: FSFILTER.SYS

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From: David Charlap
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:03

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In article <83J4PB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org> bbs.dennis@tsoft.sf-bay.org (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?

You're quite confused.  FSFILTER.SYS does nothing for MS-DOS.  If you
boot a DOS disk into an OS/2 virtual machine (like with the "DOS From
Drive A:" icon), then the FSFILTER.SYS driver on THAT boot disk will
give the virtual machine access to the OS/2 file system.

>Is there ANY known way to read the files on the HPFS
>partition without booting OS/2?

Nope.
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