Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:02:11 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Andrew Cottrell wrote:
>     Windows 98 FAT32 partition exe running on Windows 98 - OK 12/07/2001
> 09:28p       2,946,776,700 TEST.BIN
>     Windows 2000 NTFS partition exe running on Windows 2000 - OKAY
> 12/07/2001  09:22p       2,946,776,700 TEST.BIN
>     Windows 2000 FAT32 partition with exe running on Windows 2000 - OKAY
> 12/07/2001  09:15p       2,946,776,700 TEST.BIN
> 
> It all looks okay for writing a file > 2GB with the mods.

Thanks!

So it looks like Windows 2000 simply doesn't need the FAT32 bit to 
support FAT32 volumes.  If so, the suggested modification to _open.c is 
probably the right solution to this problem.

If no one objects, I suggest we fix _open.c along these lines.