Uh, last I checked Windows Nt can run DOS proggies in NTFS. It's the
operating system, not the file system. Accessing HPFS partitions from DOS,
you're on the money there.


Margus Ramst wrote in message <371f81c2.0@news.povray.org>...
>Nieminen Mika wrote in message <371dd29a.0@news.povray.org>...
>>
>>  Not true.
>>  Microsoft has to support dos programs because most of people use them
>>(games etc). Sometimes those programs just don't work under windows.
>>  You also must be able to boot from a floppy disk. Suppose that your
>>computer gets infected by a virus. You have to boot from a clean floppy
>>and run a virus scanner from that floppy disk. You can't make a clean
>>boot to windows from a floppy disk. If you boot to windows, the virus will
>>also load itself to memory. If it has some sort of stealth capabilities or
>>something like that, there you are.
>>  That's why f-prot is still a dos-program.
>>
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>Well, if Win2000 has a file system similar to NT, MS-DOS simply can't read
>the partition, right? Even Win98 is a horrible pain when running classic
DOS
>apps.
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>>  Have you ever tested the speed of msdos pov (from raw dos) and winpov?
>>
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>Yes. And given enough memory, POVWin is only slightly slower, if at all.
>
>Margus
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