Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:30:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Should off_t become unsigned?
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Bill Currie wrote:

> I'll certainly try it and find out (dos7 vs w95 that is, I don't know 
> if there are any w95 machines arround here with fat16).

You can use a floppy disk as a non-FAT32 volume, can't you?

> However, as to detecting whether a drive has fat32, just read the 
> boot sector (w95 allows disk reads, just not writes)

I thought Windows 95 requires to lock the volume before it allows
direct disk reads, no?

Anyway, reading the boot sector is the last choice I would like to
consider because it will probably mean trouble on some non-DOS
filesystems, like NT, or Linux, or networked drives.  I hope there's a
nicer way of detecting FAT32.