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|    mark lewis to TOM WALKER    |
|    NTFS.COM    |
|    11 Aug 14 12:32:24    |
       On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, TOM WALKER wrote to MARK LEWIS:              ML>EV> www.ntfs.com is a web site that I found in a comment on a Result       ML>EV> page of a Search I recently did.              ML>EV> I noticed it has topics about NTFS and FAT.              ML> HG> How about HPFS ?              ML>highly doubtful since HPFS is an IBM thing and even though NTFS is a       ML>bastardized version, hardly anyone knows about it unless they are       ML>on mainframes or minis or OS2 of some flavor... even then, many have        ML>switched to JFS (Journaled File System) because the chkdsk/recovery        ML>time is much shorter and rarely is any data lost due to the        ML>journal...               TW> Actualy OS2 started as a Jojnt IBM Microsoft project.              i know... i've been running it since v2.11 was released ;)              and i /still/ run my main operation on OS/2... these days it is eCS (eCom       Station) instead of my old reliable Warp 3 Connect which lasted the longest of       any OS i've ever run... i hope to find the time somewhere to resurrect it... i       don't know what sort of corruption twisted it up but something did for the       first time since it was ever installed :(               TW> In fact the web site i directed Mark to about HPFS in a previous        TW> post is a Microsoft site              mark?? did you mean ed or holger??              the MS site reference for hpfs is understandable... i was only saying that i       thought it was doubtful that ntfs.com would discuss hpfs to any great detail...              )\/(ark               * Origin: (1:3634/12)    |
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