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From: gregj@microsoft.UUCP (Greg JONES)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: MS LAN Man: HPFS386/DOS compat., non-/dedicated
Message-ID: <71108@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 91 04:32:36 GMT
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <328.27cb8759@mbcl.rutgers.edu>, goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu writes:
> Yes, you do lose local security if you go back to the 286-specific version 
> of the HPFS. That didn't matter for me (I needed the DOS box more).  I also
> did boot with the DOS box & the HPFS386; it complained on boot, but
> the OS/2 & Lan Man did come up all the way.  You might try that, but you
> may get unexpected crashes.

Worry not, you won't crash.  It wouldn't be too polite if you accidentally
turned on the DOS box and we wouldn't let you turn it back off without
reinstalling OS/2.  HPFS386 will just refuse to do anything that would
be incompatible with the DOS box.  This includes starting the lazy write
daemon and the server.  It also includes its timer mechanism, so file
modification times won't be set accurately.  But all the file system
functionality is still there, and of course other LANMAN components (like
the workstation) are unaffected.

uunet!microsoft!gregj
Greg Jones, MS network development
[I just happen to work here.  Sheer coincidence.]