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From: jonny AT beta DOT coe DOT ufrj DOT br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis)
Subject: Re: managing diff's
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 10:36:56 GMT-3:00

> 
> >I'm no DOS expert, but I thought FCB functions were an older, outdated
> >method of accessing DOS files.  Why would we want support for these in
> >go32?
> 
> The one thing you can't do without using FCB functions is to change the volume
> label on a disk.  Other than that, I agree with you.  (My interest in this is
> for a disk cataloging program which currently runs under DOS or the Ergo DOS
> extender.)  The FCB functions which I implemented do not include reading or
> writing files.
> 

*NO* other way.  No internal/extra/undocumented function ?

I'm just trying to know more about this...

					Jonny


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