Re: Dos Box creepers and more

["mike shupp" mikeshupp@xxxxxxxx]

Er... these are "partitions" rather than "virtual drives."
And you can read/write the DOS partitions from Windows without
any problems using Win Explorer, or any other Windows application.
It doesn't work the other way (normally) because Windows partitions
are generally FAT32 rather than FAT16, so DOS doesn't understand
them and Windows partitions are often larger than the 8 GBytes
which is the largest partition that DOS can deal with. If for
some reason your Windows partitions were small enough and formatted
as FAT16 disks, you would be able to read and write files there
with your DOS programs.

--shupp






----Original Message Follows----
From: "Fredric Gross" 
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
To: 
Subject: Re: Dos Box creepers and more
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 15:45:16 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: "J. R. Fox" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: Dos Box creepers and more


> michael.norman@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > At 11/7/2002 11:27 PM -0500, Martin J. Osborne wrote:


> > >    Can you cut an paste between
> > >programs running under different OSs? Is switching between XyWrite on
> > >the W98 to a program running under W2K as simple as pressing alt-Tab
as

> > >in a single OS system?
>
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Re: interaction between partitions under different OSes:

 For what it is worth, I have a hard drive partitioned under Commander into
a DOS-box (mostly for Xy3+) and a W95.  The DOS virtual drives are C:, D:,
E: & F:. The W95 virtual drive is beyond the ken of DOS. However, when in
W95, the W95 virtual drive identifies itself as C:, and
renames the DOS C: drive as G:. W95 recognizes all of the remaining DOS
virtual drives by the same name as under DOS. Consequently, when running
W95, I am able to read from and write to each of my DOS virtual drives.

While I would not exactly call this "cut and paste," and I cannot run DOS
and W95 programs simultaneously (except by opening a DOS window in W95),
Commander's permitting some file transfers between operating systems does
have its uses.

Fred


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