Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 1997 11:39:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	Re: Should off_t become unsigned?
In-reply-to:	<199710141950.IAA13330@teleng1.tait.co.nz gatekeeper.tait.co.nz>
To:	Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Message-id:	<Pine.LNX.3.91.971015113545.28679A-100000@acp3bf>
MIME-version:	1.0

On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Bill Currie wrote:

> On 14 Oct 97 at 10:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > That's another possibility, yes.  But the problem is with that
> > ``acessible file''.  It seems that on MSDOS, there's no file whose
> > existence we can always rely on.
> 
> c:\io.sys

Sorry, but that's not entirely true, if memory serves: on non-MS versions
of DOS (like IBM's PC-DOS, or DR/Novell DOS, maybe also Caldera OpenDOS),
there is no io.sys. Instead, you'ld have an 'ibmbio.sys' (and 'ibmdos.sys'
instead of msdos.sys). 

HBB

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