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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 17:09:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Should off_t become unsigned?
In-Reply-To: <9710131441.AA16581@clio.rice.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971013170754.12363A-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> >    - call function 6Ch instead of 3Dh to open a file (under LFN=n),
> >      and set the FAT32 bit in the BH register before calling DOS;
> 
> I have a problem with this since it breaks DOS 3.x systems

You mean Int 21h/AH=6Ch is not supported on DOS 3.x?  If that's the only 
problem, we can call 6Ch on DOS 7 and above, since previous versions 
don't support FAT32 anyway.  Is that OK?

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