15 Oct
2011
15 Oct
'11
8:51 p.m.
On 10/15/2011 9:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
FAT16, for example used a SIGNED long for both the
file size and for the
maximum partition size. Therefore, instead of 0 to 4GB, the range was
-2GB to +2GB
That opens up some interesting possibilities!
I stepped on the DIR of a floppy disk, and created a -2GB file. I then
copied that file to an almost full hard disk, in order to get more disk
space without the DANGERS! of compression. It didn't work.
Did you remember the -2GB is for imaginary data when C gets REAL numbers.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com