Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!fc173108
From: fc173108@seas.gwu.edu (Iqbal Qazi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v08i173: dirm, fast directory lister
Summary: It works fine but gives wrong free-space-on-disk amount
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Date: 31 Oct 90 17:26:46 GMT
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Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
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     The summary says it all.

     I have a 160 Meg ESDI hard drive with 35,979,264 bytes free
according to DOS (4.01) but DIRM tells me   2,424,832 bytes free.
However, DIRM does give the correct number of bytes in the files that
I do a directory of; i.e. "xxxxxx bytes in yy files" is correct, just
the total free space on the drive is wrong.

     Notice that the true value minus DIRM's value is 33,554,432.  The
difference between DIR's and DIRM's values is _always_ the same.  This leads
me to believe DIRM is having problems recoginizing drives greater than
32 Meg, which is the max. a partition could be before DOS 4.0.  

     If anyone has a fix, patch, suggestion to fix this bug, I'd
appreciate.  Other than this small item, DIRM is an excellent program.

Thanks,

Iqbal