PE> I may have confused the issue by running HPFS386 on and off though.

RS> You sure like living dangerously dont you ?

It's not the same version of HPFS386 that screwed my data many
moons ago, and I sort of have a complete backup at the moment.
The fact that the backup disk shows 0 files is totally irrelevant!

RS> And you STILL leave out half the vital info,
RS> you dont say which version of OS/2 you are using.

3.0.

PE> I remembered that I got those sorts of results before,
PE> and didn't complete the investigation, but did remember
PE> the ballpark I had got to.  That was sqpackp.

PE> I do not yet have a theory to explain the observed behaviour.

RS> Until you spell out the full OS2 version and HPFS386 story,
RS> the most likely explanation is just that its showing that
RS> the HPFS386 is producing some weird results with that OS/2.

Like I said above, I had the same problem, ages ago.  As for
the HPFS386 story, what do you want to know?  I installed
HPFS386.ZIP followed by LS30*.*, both available from here.

RS> Most likely the problem is just that that HPFS386 is fucked in that config.

Fucked doing what?  If I knew what was screwing it up, I could
probably adjust some parameters.  BFN.  Paul.
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