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From: ander@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael R. Primm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: HPFS and OS/2 2.0 windows compatability
Message-ID: <1989Oct20.142950.1000@rpi.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 89 14:29:50 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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     As it seems that there are people out there with OS/2 1.2, can anyone
give me a technical description of how HPFS is different from FAT, what 
sort of directory and allocation strategy it uses, and so forth??  Or, 
if someone could direct me to a journal reference describing it, that'd
be fine.
     Also, I remember reading several places that OS/2 V2.0 (the 386 
version) will be able to run Windows binaries without modification...and
as protected mode tasks, not "boxed into" the DOS box.  ANyone else 
know for sure??
     Lastly, even if there is not yet alot of traffic here, I know I'd
like to see at least an "official" FTP site for os/2 software.  I've got
several programs I'd like to make available (a porting of GNU Bison and
Flex, to name a couple), and I KNOW I'd like to see what others have come 
up with.  Can anyone out there spare a few MB in their public file area??
                                                       --Mike Primm