PF>>Then I assume your disk utility would only READ from the disk. Writing to
 PF>>the disk without locking it is courting disaster.

 JH>Have you every run any of the GammaTeck utilitys for OS/2 HPFS?
 JH>With them I can defrag and undelete and still use that  disk.

HPFS is a different critter than FAT.  Try running GT's FATOPT on a disk
in use to see what Peter's talking about.

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