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to: Jonathan De Boyne Pollard
from: Eddy Thilleman
date: 1999-12-02 09:47:21
subject: Multiple visible primary partitions

Hello Jonathan,

29 Nov 99 10:49, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to MIKE RUSKAI:

JP> just to confirm my educated guess (based on the fact that prior to
JP> MS-DOS version 3.3 one was forced to use multiple visible primary
....snip....
JP> have traced through the source code for), can also see multiple
JP> visible primary partitions.

I can confirm that plain DOS sees all visible (=not hidden) primary partitions 
on the same harddisk at once. I have seen that on someone's else system.

  Greetings   -=Eddy=-        email: eddy.thilleman@net.hcc.nl

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