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From: mrice@caen.engin.umich.edu (Michael Rice)
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Subject: Re: v08i173: dirm, fast directory lister
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Date: 31 Oct 90 19:27:49 GMT
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In article <2290@sparko.gwu.edu> fc173108@seas.gwu.edu () writes:
>
>     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.  
>

There are a few bugs in DIRM v1.0 that are either already fixed in
v1.2 or about to be fixed in v1.3.  The above bug along with one other
will be fixed within a couple of days.  Anyone who is interested in
this can send me e-mail and I will mail a uuencode version directly
to you.   Please keep reporting any bugs or suggestions.  Thanks, Mike