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From: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: MS LAN Man: HPFS386/DOS compat., non-/dedicated
Message-ID: <6943@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 02:00:42 GMT
References: <6694@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <323.27c8ea45@mbcl.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <323.27c8ea45@mbcl.rutgers.edu> goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes:
>In article <6694@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>> I noticed that by using HPFS386 (and local security) I give up my ability
>> to use the DOS box.  It makes sense to me that OS/2 1.3 is designed around
>You don't have to give up the DOS box if you don't want to.  What you can do
>is use the old (286-specific) version of HPFS, and then change the

Yes, but then I lose local security unless I'm misunderstanding the docs.  Also
the docs keep stating something like "And if your partition was already HPFS
formatted, installation will reformat it as HPFS386..."  Whoa!  Sounds scary to
me!  I'm going to backup everything before I start.

--kyler