Re: off topic: enhanced DOS ?

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Jordan,
I thought i had read someplace that Fat-16 meant that your hard drive,
as recognized by your computer, would top out somewhere around 800Mb?
the reason i say this is that, from the info i read, was led to believe
that once you got to the gig sizes you must be running a fat-32 aware
OS?

Or that is what i thought it said!

Russ
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 01:28 PM, J. R. Fox wrote:
> Russ Urquhart wrote:
> > I was reading a post that stated that, as far as MS-DOS, etc. went you
> > needed at least version 7.0 of DOS for Fat-32. Supposedly MS still
> > offers MS-DOS in a version 7.10.
> >
> > I just check on my PC-DOS that is emulated under Virtual PC. It is
> > version 7.0 and i am currently running a 2Gig harddrive, so I guess
> > this is true!
>
> Thanks for your reply, Russ. First, let me correct a mis-typing: I
> obviously
> meant to say 8 Gig., rather than 8 meg. ! With or without some
> provision
> for
> dealing with FAT-32 partitions, which wouldn't be that hard to
> implement,
> your example does not really test my thesis. If you were running a
> *20* G.
> hard drive, instead of a 2G. (assuming you did not also mis-type), and
> told
> me you could see to _the end_ of it from the DOS you have -- whether
> standalone
> or part of an emulation core -- that would be suggestive of the answer
> I am
> looking
> for.
>
> Jordan