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From: "Mark @ Cross+Road's" <mwarchol AT flash DOT net>
CC: <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:46:19 +0400
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Subject: Re: Maximum floppy drive size
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com


  What is the current process of having Drdos 7x to work it's utilitys such
as chkdsk and others with the long file names of 95x..?
    Will the longfile name aware becomming anytime soon does anyone know?
          Mark


On 1999-04-15 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
   >On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 Glenn McCorkle wrote:
   >> >> Can anyone tell me if OpenDOS has the same 32Mb limit for
   >>floppy drives?  [...]
   >>  I tried ZapA and it works perfectly with OpenDos v7.01
   >> The entire 100mb 'is' accessible just as if you had a 100mb
   >floppy. Aha, very interesting. I haven t seen ZapA yet, but this
   >shows, that it does not actually handle a ZIP media like a floppy,
   >more like an (ejectable) harddisk (similar to what the Iomega
   >drivers do).
   >> So, for anyone who gets ZapA, don't use any of these DOS utilities
   >> to format, diskcopy or diskcomp the ZipDisk.
   >>  Use the utilities that came with ZipDrive.
   >Yep - at least until these tools get extended to handle
   >SuperFloppies (and even harddisks) - I m not only thinking about it.
   >.. ;-)
   >Matthias
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