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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:07:54 -0700
From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com>
Organization: VERITAS Software
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: DOS 7 setup
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Eli,

I'm sorry, I wasn't as clear as I needed to be.

By support for FAT32, I need to use files stored on partitions formatted
with FAT32, so I need to run a DOS that understands this format.  I
don't necessarily need it for the compiler, I was just curious as to the
state of things.

What I really do need to know is whether the Windows 9x DOS environment
would be setup the same as any other DOS, with respect to the config.sys
and/or autoexec.bat files.

Thanks,

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > 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.

-- 
Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com