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to: Linda Proulx
from: Charles Gaefke
date: 1999-10-26 12:04:17
subject: Re: Confirmation Needed

LP> I just want to confirm that if I copy a file from an OS/2 32 bit
LP> formated drive to removable media (eg. zip disk or floppy) that those
LP> files can be used by DOS & if I copy a file from a DOS disk to the OS/2
LP> drive that OS/2 can read it.

    It all depends on how the diskette is formatted.  Normal floppy diskettes 
can only be FAT.  So you don't have to worry about that.

    ZIP disks, OTOH, can be formatted HPFS.  If they are, OS/2 will be able to
read them, DOS will not.


C. Gaefke
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