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From: JohnT <jrt AT inXSformatics DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Borland 4.5 C/C++ compiler problem
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 06:51:48 -0700
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Damian Yerrick wrote:

> On 13 Aug 2000 12:47:03 GMT, d021317c AT dc DOT seflin DOT org (Marshall Price)
> wrote:
>
> >  32 is such a *large* number!
> >  Besides, I discovered DEFRAG was reporting more and more of my hard
> >drive "unmovable."  When I got away from DJGPP and CWSDPMI and GO32 (or
> >*something*), I stopped having those problems.
>
> This is strange.  comp.os.msdos.djgpp added
>
> --
> Damian Yerrick

I was browsing around comp.os.msdos.djgpp and found the problem
of parts of the disk being marked "unmoveable". I'm not sure, but
think this may be due to DOS sessions running under Windows and
getting some kind of undocumented crap written to files or clusters
by Windows. My system had two hard drives for a while, one used
as backup, and I would get rid of the unmoveable clusters by doing
a backup, reformat and copying all the files back. The exact flag
that causes the "unmoveable" designation I don't know about, but
documented file attributes don't have a bit that means "unmoveable".
Anyone got a good guess on this?

I think one of the programs that causes this is a DOS text editor,
not part of DJGPP.

John