Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/07/27/20:15:24
Hi,
Dunno if this is relevant, but I read my my A+ book that DOS 7 "forbids"
formatting a floppy to fat16/fat32, rather than fat12. Anyway, I take it
thats not what you meant :)
Later,
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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> > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:19:19 -0700
> > From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com>
> >
> > I am planning on using the Win9x "DOS 7" for development and test of a
> > tool I need for some test work. I don't need a GUI environment, but do
> > need support for the FAT32 filesystem type and the ability to boot from
> > a floppy.
>
> What kind of support for FAT32 filesystem do you need? The
> differences, as far as system calls are concerned are quite small.
>
> > I have searched the FAQ and the mail archives and seen that some work
> > has been done (and may still be in progress) to support FAT32, and
> > partitions/files > 2 GB. But I could not find anything on how to setup
> > DJGPP in this environment.
>
> FAT32 is not fully supported in the current released version of DJGPP
> (v2.03). FAT32 support was added to development sources and is
> available via anonymous CVS (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/cvs.html),
> so if you are desperate, you can have it; but you will need to rebuild
> the library. If you need FAT32 support in ported utilities, such as
> the GNU development tools, you need to rebuild them as well.
>
> Using the library with FAT32 support doesn't require any special
> setup. It is all done automatically by low-level library functions.
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