On May 22, 1996 at 07:41, Bill Grimsley of 3:640/305.9 wrote:

 BG> I have this German ute called HPFS4DOS, and when run from the DOS CLI
[...]
 BG> with it.  The entire archive is under 40Kb, so if you want a copy, let
 BG> me know.

Yeah, crash it TML so we can all get it.  Thanks..

 db>> (dunno how the heck I was going to go with a ray-tracer as my operating
 db>> system..), and it just went downhill from there...
 BG>
 BG> Any idea what caused that?  OS/2, HPFS, or the app itself?

No, it was too long ago to remember the details - all I remember was the
coincidence that the ray-tracer crashed, OS/2 crashed, then at the next
boot the file system was totally trashed.

 db>> I head a radio advert this morning - something along the lines of:
[...]
 db>> Will they ever learn?
 BG>
 BG> Obviously not a M$ commercial then.  Whose was it?

Sydney Morning Herald, I think.

 db>> I don't recall just what "n" is, but the default for most HPFS
 db>> defraggers (3) is within that limit.
 BG>
 BG> Which is presumably why that's generally their default.

Yup!  I've got bits and pieces of HPFS information floating around here
(including the source to the Linux device driver which mounts HPFS drives
in read-only mode), but no single source that covers it all.

 db>> Don't run Windows NT, don't care.  ;-)  (Although there's been a hint
 db>> at work that I may have to admin one or more NT boxes starting within
 db>> the next 12 months - we'll see.)
 BG>
 BG> Oh dear, time to start sending out resumes, perhaps?  :)

No, no .. my main job is not meant to be operating system-specific, as it
relates to the network as a whole (software side thereof);  that's the
routers, terminal servers, modems and so forth.

The main computers I work with remain UNIX machines, followed by PCs
running DOS/WfW, and Macintrashes, with Win95 and WinNT only appearing in
the odd isolated instance at the moment.

My boss' boss (division manager) came in to my office this morning asking
how to get his OS/2 Warp-based IBM ThinkPad connected to our dial-in
services.  There's actually more *interest* in OS/2 and Linux growing in
the computer centre, with Win95 and WinNT "tolerated" because
end-users are buying it on the say-so of slick salesfolk.  ;-)

Cheers..

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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