To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Organization:	Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and
	Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Science
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From:	pavel AT insect DOT mail DOT iephb DOT ru (Pavel V. Ozerski)
Date:	Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:41:31 +0400 (MSD)
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Subject:	Again about NTFS problem.
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I understand that HIMEM.SYS bug is very important but I would remember about an another problem.
I (and not only I) use DR-DOS as 'first aid system' on Windows NT computer. Since I converted one
logical disk to NTFS I cannot see this disk from DR-DOS. I understand that NTFS support is too complex
to be the part of DR-DOS. The problem is another: I cannot use the popular NTFSDOS driver that must
allow to read NTFS disks from DOS. The answer of one from two authors of this TSR, Mark Russinovich,
is: "You failed to read the requirements: NTFSDOS Requires MS DOS 5 or higher". Well, but DR-DOS
claims to be fully compatible with MS-DOS 6! But really it has therefore some important differences!
My question: what are these differences? If DR-DOS does not understand some DOS API functions
or interrupts, I think, there are no problems to write a small driver or TSR to make the interface between
NTFSDOS and DR-DOS.

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