29 Jun
2006
29 Jun
'06
4:28 a.m.
On 6/28/2006 at 9:52 PM Jim Leonard wrote:
CDROMs don't exceed 2G so I'm not sure what
you're getting at. I've
never seen anything that provides volumes larger than 2G to DOS, in any
form or format. Not even the older VCOM and Golden Bow stuff.
Funny thing about that--NT can support FAT16 partitions up to 4G, but if
you have such a partition, stock DOS barfs on it.
However, Fred's right--you can use the network interface to implement
whatever size filesystem you desire. You may have to "bracket" return
values for total and free sizes when you report them back to DOS, but
basically, DOS doesn't care what you've got out there for a filesystem.
Unless MS has broken the interface, you can still access another (NT)
system using NTFS for a filesystem using DOS 5 running real-mode Microsoft
networking--or even WFWG. However, individual file sizes can be 2G at
most--but I think DOS 7 can handle 4G files (i.e. MS fixed enough of the
code)..
Cheers,
Chuck