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From: myxm@lanl.ARPA (Mike Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS Cluster sizes - HELP
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Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 10:56:35 EDT
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> This is a quick request for help under Ms-dos on a z100 (version 2.1x)
> I need to know if it is possible to change the default fat length from
> 12 bits to 16bits.  Under 3.1 this happens automatically if you have
> more than 4086 clusters but it doesn't seem to work the same way under
> v2.1.  I need this because I inherited a 32mb drive and I sure hate to
> use 16 sector clusters (minimum file size of 8k!!! yuk). I think this
> may have been posted before but I missed it.


NOPE! The 16 bit fats were introduced with DOS 3.+

Mike Mitchell @lanl.arpa
myxm@lanl.arpa