Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:43:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: 18-sector limit with biosdisk()
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Chris Giese wrote:

> >> If there is some doubt then it would be worth to do a simple test
> >> before any serious development work on libc.
> 
> Are there any popular DJGPP programs that make heavy use of
> biosdisk()?

You could start with the ported `df' (from GNU Fileutils).  It calls
library function `getmntent' which calls `biosdisk' internally.

> Otherwise, I could write a small test program to check if the BIOS
> really does limit reads to 18 sectors.

That might also be a good idea.