Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 17:56:36 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Exclusive access to drive
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On 5 Jun 1997, George Foot wrote:

> 1) It's not just Windows' reaction to running DPMI programs (chkdsk still
> works when a DPMI program is running)

Not necessarily.  Every DOS box runs in a different virtual machine,
so they are almost independent.

> 2) It's not because chkdsk is being directly spawned by the DPMI
> program

Sorry, I don't see what made you say this.  Did you spawn chkdsk from
withint non-DJGPP program and it also didn't work?

Btw, among the myriad of books on Windows 95 secrets, I've seen one
which explicitly says that Microsoft wants to discourage people from
using chkdsk, they want them to use scandisk instead.  It just might
be that the message we see is part of this effort.  the only thing
that I'd like to know is what exactly do they check to trigger the
message.