To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com, dan AT verity DOT ICS DOT UCI DOT EDU
Subject:	Re: novice errors? dpmi, info, groff, df
In-reply-to:	Your message of "Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:29:28 +0300."
	<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970319122722 DOT 19845B-100000 AT is>
Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:55:04 -0800
From:	Dan Hirschberg <dan AT verity DOT ICS DOT UCI DOT EDU>
Message-ID:	<9703191355.aa17268@paris.ics.uci.edu>

 > Seems like a bug in NT DOS box (32768 * 31249 is NOT 2GB).  In case
 > you have motivation and time to investigate further, I attach below
 > the source of `statfs' from the library; please see if the values
 > returned in the registers by the call to Int 21h/AH=36h are indeed
 > erroneous in the case of the hard drive (it might be that the values
 > are OK, but the arithmetics makes them overflow).
 >
 > Btw, what does "CHKDSK C:" report on that DOS box?  It should print the
 > values of BSIZE, FILES and BFREE as above (it does for me on MSDOS machine
 > with a 1GB disk).  And df works for me on Windows 3.11 for a 1.9GB
 > NFS-mounted disk. 

I will find out and tell you.

 > > *******************
 > > running df
 > > *******************
 > > 
 > > Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
 > > Drive A:                 713     450      263     63%   a:/
 > > c:\                   999968       0   999968      0%   c:/
 > > c:/djgpp/bin/df: d:/: No such device (ENODEV)
 > > c:/djgpp/bin/df: ?@: No such file or directory (ENODEV)
 > > c:/djgpp/bin/df: ??????????: No such file or directory (ENODEV)
 > 
 > These all seem to be caused by some problem inside `getmntent'
 > library function, which is probably unrelated to the problem with
 > `statfs'.  `getmntent' uses some low-level DOS calls to get all the
 > info that is expected from it, and it seems that some of its
 > techniques fail on NT.  If you could step into `getmntent' (I can send
 > you the source if you don't have djlsr201.zip) and see what exactly
 > goes wrong, I probably could figure out the solution.  Sorry, I don't
 > have access to NT.  And thanks for your efforts.

Please send me the source.  I did not see that file (getmnent).

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