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Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:17:16 PST8
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: FAT32 formatting using FAT32.IFS ?

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Mark D. Overholser wrote:
>
> FreeDOS <http://www.freedos.org/> seems to have FAT32 support
> <http://www.freedos.org/freedos/about/>. I assume that it contains a
> SCANDISK Util??

Hey, good thinking. I'll have to download it and find out.

> A great idea would be to use the FreeDOS FORMAT and SCAN program and
> adapt them to OS/2...

Perhaps you've come up with a great way to create FAT32 under OS/2.

I have this old note that FreeDOS beta 4 ran fine in a Warp 3 DOS session:

FreeDOS under OS/2 - posted by jhall Jan 18 2000 - Marty writes:
FreeDOS beta-4 runs very nicely in an OS/2 (Warp Version 3) DOS session.
... OS/2 has "virtual machine" capability. You can start a VM from a
bootable FreeDOS disk, or from a disk image, and FreeDOS thinks it's
running on its own machine. If you have an OS/2 manual, look under "DOS
from Drive A" to see how to do it. ... Why would anyone want to run it
that way? Well, OS/2 DOS sessions are very robust -- a crash in a DOS
box usually won't affect the rest of the machine. It might be handy to
have multiple FreeDOS sessions running simultaneously for debugging.

- Peter

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