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Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:09:28 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Pinball Sys

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Steven responded to a query:

>>Boy, I'm really confused now. I thought pinball.sys was a
*Windows*
>>driver that read *HPFS* files. See the message for this thread
("HPFS
>>SCSI on Windows") last December 17:

> It is. Actually, it's a WinNT only driver. Me thinks someone
misread the
> original post. Only time will tell who that is.

> One of the related questions that comes up now and then is will

> pinball.sys work on Win2K. My answer is I don't know.

I rather doubt it. MS did something in SP 5 or 6 for NT to make
this capability
go away. Most likely that carried over into W2K.

Someone else mentioned a possible partition corruption issue.
The question is,
are you willing to risk another OS mucking about with the files
belonging to
another ? Some time ago, I decided that Read Access might be
o.k., but to avoid
Write file access between OSes / file systems. I keep a
\XFER section, with
specific sub-dirs, on a Common Access FAT-16 partition, to be
used as a waystation
for things downloaded under one OS, but destined for another.

I suspect there is probably more damage potential in writing to
an OS/2 partition
from the WIN side.

I'm wondering if VPC will render some of these concerns
irrelevant.

Jordan

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