Re: off topic: enhanced DOS ?

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi,
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!

fwiw,

Russ
On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 12:56 AM, J. R. Fox wrote:
> DOS -- at least any version that was known to me -- had built-in
> limitations in that it only understood FAT-16 partitions (although I
> believe there may have been some public domain IFSes -- installable
> file systems -- that allowed it to read / access a couple other
> partition types), and it could only see a distance of about 8 meg.s
> out from the beginning of a hard drive. I seem to recall there may
> have been a DOS that could overcome this, perhaps a DOS that was
> inside Novell Netware. Does anyone know of _any other_ DOS version
> that may have been enhanced in this way, taking it beyond these
> constraints of the DOS era ? I have a practical reason for inquiring.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jordan