MR>> About the only drawback to HPFS is not being able to reliably recover
 MR>> deleted files. You learn quickly to make backups before doing
 MR>> anything destructive.

 LP> OH!  No one said anything about that!  

That's generally because if left as installed by default, the DELDIR
environment variable is set, and the UNDELETE command that is supplied as
standard with OS/2 is perfectly capable of undeleting files.  The DELDIR
mechanism only saves the most recent few deleted files, purging earlier
deletes to make room for newer ones, but it is there and does work reliably.

 LP> No 3rd party undeletes?

Plenty.  File Pheonix is IBM Employee Written Software (meaning that it was
written by an IBM employee on IBM time, technically making it IBM's property,
but that IBM has allowed it to be published on a non-profit basis), which can
retrieve deleted data from HPFS volumes.  Both the GammaTech Utilities and the 
Graham Utilities also include undelete programs for HPFS.

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