On (16 Apr 97) David Noon wrote to John Glinski...
 >>> Originating Area: OS2
Hi David,
 DN> What Kris said above is incorrect. There is a utility called VMDISK
 DN> that will read a real DOS boot disk, which is necessarily FAT (e.g. a
 DN> floppy), and place the image onto a HPFS partition as a file. Once
 DN> this has been done FAT need take no further part in proceedings.
 DN> I use this approach for both PC-DOS 6.3 and PC-DOS 7.0 sessions run
 DN> from image files on a HPFS partition. These sessions can access all
 DN> the files that conform to the 8.3 naming convention on my HPFS
 DN> partitions. Thus, I can run a DOS program from a specific DOS kernel
 DN> without any FAT partitions being involved.
 DN> If you want all the gory details post a message in the OS2DOS echo,
 DN> where it is on-topic.
Even if he doesn't, I do.  Please post the details.
Thanks,
TTYL,
Stephen
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