Hi,
Kenneth J. Davis escribi�:
For applications which are best run from pure DOS, but the user has
only NTFS (and Windows), and the max data stored is known ahead of
time, a possible solution involves creating the file ahead of time (in
Windows) and then in DOS either using a special driver to treat the
file as a virtual drive or in the application specially supporting
it. The file itself could be an app specific format (where a Windows
program/GUI reads it and displays the information to/interacts with
the user) or simply a disk image so a program like VFD makes it a
virtual drive to Windows as well. Although not currently supported,
it should even be possible to boot FreeDOS (possibly from the same
disk image data stored to) from the NTFS partition. I am aware of one
company that used an approach similar to this (where the user
interacted with a Windows program, and the computer rebooted into DOS
to run the tests, and then back into Windows for processing/displaying
the results).
Doesn't PowerQuest do this in their PartitionMagic when you want to do
something critical to the %systemdrive%?
Aitor
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