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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:49:51 +0200
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	27 Jul 2000 11:19:19 -0700)
Subject: Re: DOS 7 setup
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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.