From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200107121846.UAA09493@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: DJDIR Windows 2000 investigation results #1
In-Reply-To: <005f01c10ac5$a3f10000$0a02a8c0@acceleron> from Andrew Cottrell at "Jul 12, 2001 09:27:30 pm"
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:46:57 +0200 (MET DST)
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According to Andrew Cottrell:
> I will have written an app to create an approx 3GB file and the results are
> with the changes outlined above included in the io\_*.c files:
>     Windows 98 FAT32 partition exe running on Windows 98 - OK 12/07/2001
> 09:28p       2,946,776,700 TEST.BIN
>     Windows 2000 NTFS partition exe running on Windows 2000 - OKAY
> 12/07/2001  09:22p       2,946,776,700 TEST.BIN
>     Windows 2000 FAT32 partition with exe running on Windows 2000 - OKAY
> 12/07/2001  09:15p       2,946,776,700 TEST.BIN
> 
> It all looks okay for writing a file > 2GB with the mods. If the mod failed
> what should have I seen?

Have I understood you correctly that if you on WINDOZE 2k open a file
on a FAT32 file system without the extended bit set, you can still
write more than 2.5GiB to it?

If so, amazing! But good for us.

> The app uses fprintf to write in text mode 5,000 bytes of ASCII spaces at a
> time to the test.bin file. I hope I don't haev to do this again as it takes
> a long time to do on my Win98 box.

You probably won't have to test it on a WINDOZE 98 box as I have one
(except if you really want to).


Right,

						MartinS