Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:30:29 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Bill Currie cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Should off_t become unsigned? In-Reply-To: <199710140416.RAA10413@teleng1.tait.co.nz gatekeeper.tait.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk 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.