[ Quoting Mack Barss to Scott Little ] 
 MB> So you are say that a DOS virus won't infect a FAT32 system?  Guess
 MB> all those DOS virii that go after .EXE's and .COM's only take affect
 MB> when on FAT.
You missed the first part of the conversation on this topic.
In a nutshell, it was about how HPFS was less vulnerable to nasty viruses.
The reason I gave, was that most viruses [that attack the disk itself] expect
to be on a FAT drive.
 SL> Yawn...
 MB> The are still DOS compatible Scott.  Yawn all you want.
They are not MS-DOS compatible OSs. OS/2, Win etc. all have their own native
apps. MSDOS compatible OSs just run MSDOS programs.
Regards,
 - Scott
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