Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 1998 18:06:10 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Where to get the latest sources for djtar
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980318180524.22186D-100000@is>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> Oh yes, I've looked. But as it was for CDROMs, I didn't think it would apply
> here.

It doesn't apply to floppies, but the code bloat is still there...

> > You could of course only put a call to the DOS function 36h inside 
> > `mkdir' and save all the CD-related trouble.  But: (1) that function 
> > lies on FAT32 drives; and (2) it *is* more expensive than many other DOS 
> 
> I don't understand what you mean with (1).

2136 reports incorrect info on FAT32 drives; you need to call another 
function to get the correct info.  And for that, you need a way to detect 
FAT32 drives, which I personally don't know how to do in a fast and 
reliable way.  (You might consider searching djgpp-workers archives for 
"FAT32", there was a discussion a couple of months ago.  The archives are 
searchable from http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/.)

For that matter, none of the libc functions supports FAT32 drives as yet, 
so you could claim that mkdir doesn't have to, either, at least for now.

Thanks for the description of the djtar problem, I will look into it.

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