Hi Linda,

 PK>   2. DOS programs run under OS/2 have no problems accessing HPFS
 PK> partitions, they look just like a FAT partition to 
 PK> the DOS program, so
 PK> you are nt prevented from sing HPFS partitions in 
 LP> a DOS box under OS/2,
 PK> instead you gain by the increased performance of HPFS.

 LP> I thought that DOS would not see an HPFS partition.

Native DOS can't access an HPFS partition without using a device driver that
can do this, but DOS session run under OS/2 can see just about ANY resource
that OS/2 can see!

 LP> Eg, if in a 1gpartition I use only 500 mb I have lost the 
 LP> rest of the drive to DOS and that I can not put DOS or Win 
 LP> programs on it.

Nope. I have 5 partitions on my 4.2GB drive, 1 FAT, 4 HPFS. Any DOS window I
open can see ALL partitions, regardless of how they are formatted. DOS sees
them as FAT and accesses them as FAT, OS/2 just reads and writes them as HPFS
and DOS is none the wiser. It works fine. Resolves the Cluster size problem
for large partitions too, ALL "clusters" are 512 bytes on HPFS.

I hope this helps...............pk.


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