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In article <609.1092.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:

>TO: brudiakg@isis.cs.du.edu
>BR.The idea is to create a big unmovable contiguous
>  .file on the current partition, and then edit the partition table to
>  .make DOS think that this file is the second partition.  I could
>  .write to the file and read from the partition to make sure things
>  .were in the right place, and then format the partition.  As long
>  .as nothing happened to the file, everything would be all right.
>  .
>  .So, you MS-DOS techie types, will this work?

>I've never been crazy enough to try it, if we see further posts from
>you, we'll assume that it worked, right? :-)

One could probably manage something like that, but there would be a lot
of details to keep in mind.  However, I would very much like to know 
_WHY_WHY_WHY_ on earth you want do do something like that.

Given reason interesting enough, will provide help.  I have fairly extensive
background on DOS partitioning, FATs etc.

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