Stewart Honsberger wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 SH>> DOS is the lowest common denominator. Problem with your
 SH>> 32-bit OS? Boot a DOS floppy to fix it.

 JS> I've never booted DOS, any version to fix my 32 bit OS, not once, not 
 JS> in I guess 9 years.  Why would one do something like that?

 SH> With three OSs installed on my machine, I find it handy to
 SH> boot to a DOS floppy for partition work. (Each of the OSs
 SH> was installed after another one was already using all
 SH> available space).

I too have 3 OS's installed.  I still never booted to DOS other than to
install WIN95.  DOS won't even read my large partitions.

 SH> I *COULD* use PQMagic while booted to OS/2, say, but I don't
 SH> trust partition manipulation while I'm booted to the HDD.

I've used it to resize partitions, I've never used DOS to partition a drive,
at least not in the last 10 years or so.

                                              Jack 
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