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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:44:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@inna.net>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system.
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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> 
> > > Any strong votes to the contrary?  I don't think there's anything
> > > about the current msdosfs we want to keep anyway.
> > 
> > It works great for reading 3 1/2" floppies.  This is fairly important...
> 
> It's at least basically usable (though fragile) for non-FIPS'ed DOS
> slices, too.

I use it on dos partitions of less than the 1024 cyl. size all the time
with no problem  I keep a 500M dos 6.22 partition around at all times just
because it's the only fs all the different os's I have can all talk to.

Jamie Bowden

Network Administrator, TBI Ltd.