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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: (pc) problems with dosread and large DOS partitions
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.211558.4685@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 3 Dec 90 02:15:58 GMT
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I just recently re-partitioned my hard drive to have one big DOS partion
because I was sick of trying to remember which drive I had put stuff on.
So now a have a 65Meg DOS partition.  But now dosread chokes on just
about any file I try to read with either "Premature EOF" or "too many
clusters allocated for file."  I've made a precursory glance over the
dosread.c source and can't see exactly why it's failing.  Is there any
magic constant I have to change since my DOS partition is greater than
32 Meg?  It *does* usually manage to correctly read the first few K of
a file.

-- 
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"Honest." -- Robert M. Pirsig, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence_.

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