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echo: os2prog
to: Bill Stone
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1995-01-24 01:26:38
subject: Wanted DB2 or Database P

Bill Stone wrote in a message to Peter Fitzsimmons:

PF> MB> One method would be to make position information subject to a scaling
PF> MB> factor by adding an OS/2 API function such as
"DosFileSetScale()."  If

PF>There is an undocumented fsioctl that will put hpfs in
PF>"sector mode",so that all seeks will be based on sectors,
PF>not bytes.

PF>If anyone is REALLY interested,  I will dig though my pile
PF>of napkins to try and find the details.

 BS> ANY info on HPFS internals is like platinum. Please post.

What are you looking for?  It would help to know that.
 
-- Mike


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