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Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 16:54:11 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Green on Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:31:29 +0000)
Subject: Re: 18-sector limit with biosdisk()
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> From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:31:29 +0000
> > 
> > Does this mean that if we bump the limit to 21 sectors, programs might 
> > choke with som BIOSes?
> 
> Yes - unless you think it could mean something else.

English is not my first language.  If you aren't sure as well, perhaps
we should ask whoever wrote that.

> If there is some doubt then it would be worth to do a simple test
> before any serious development work on libc.

If there's a chance of breaking the library by this change, I think we
better not do it.  People who need to read non-standard floppies can
always use __dpmi_int directly.

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