Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:59:41 +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:

> Don't some of the fcb functions fail with fat32? Try opening an 
> accessible file using an fcb and if it fails, you have fat32.

That's another possibility, yes.  But the problem is with that 
``acessible file''.  It seems that on MSDOS, there's no file whose 
existence we can always rely on.

Also, opening a file is rather expensive (but that might be not
important here, as we talk about file-related operations anyhow).