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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Miniscribe 3085 on Dos3.3?
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Date: 18 Jul 89 11:52:40 GMT
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In article <[4368.3]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, andyross@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Andrew Rossmann) wrote:
}  Forgot to add some additional info about DOS 4. Several UNDOCUMENTED DOS
}calls have had some changes. The most annoying is function 1Fh, Get default
}DOS parameter block and 32h, Get DOS Parameter Block. Apparantly, the
}number of sectors for FAT entry is now a WORD instead of a BYTE. This has

Not surprisingly, since FAT's may now be up to 256 sectors long....  Besides,
on undocumented functions you HAVE to expect change.  Particularly when you
consider that even documented functions have changed between versions (DOS 2.x
and 3.x "get country-dependent info" are quite different, and incompatible).

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