Date:	Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:06:28 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Paul Derbyshire <ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Reading NTFS Disks from OpenDOS
In-Reply-To:	<67lghf$af5@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971222140352.11206A-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On 22 Dec 1997, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> Dim Zegebart (zager AT post DOT comstar DOT ru) writes:
> > ...has size 46.393 bytes.
> 
> Hrm? Even if there are trailing bits after the last byte, it can only end
> in .125, .25, .375, .5, 625, .75, or .875...not .373. Or did you mean to
> put a comma there? :-)

Where comma is used in the US locale, a dot is used in other locales.  
That's what locales are for (and yes, in Russia a dot is used as a 
thousands separator and PI is written as 3,14159...).  Even DOS knows 
about that and returnd this info when you call the appropriate function 
of Int 21h.

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