From:	"Graeme Fenwick" <gfenwick AT BYESPAMprimex DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Documentation on Non-ANSI features, and Allegro problem!
Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:44:06 -0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>> As far as I can tell, an obvious way round this would be to check there's
>> enough room on the disk first, but using ANSI code to do this would
probably
>> require some inelegantly contrived solution and still end up being
>> nonportable.
>Use the function `statfs' from the DJGPP library.


Thanks, I'll check that out.

>> There surely has to be a non-ANSI function to do this, somewhere in
DJGPP's
>> library, but unfortunately I can't find any documentation in this area,
>`statfs' is of course documented in libc.inf.

Unfortunately...

>> except possibly an Info file, which I can't get to load into the reader
>> (that's another story...). Any pointers?
>You will be quite lost in DJGPP without the on-line docs.  I suggest to
>post the description of the problems you have with Info, and ask people
>to help you set it up.

I'll give that a go, thanks! However, since it's not really a DJGPP-specific
problem, I'll try posting it somewhere else.

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