Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!codas!karthur
From: karthur@codas.att.com (Kurt_R_Arthur)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: RBASE V Version 1.1
Message-ID: <1558@codas.att.com>
Date: 14 Jan 88 13:52:52 GMT
References: <QVuuYvy00Uo6Nz809z@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: AT&T, Altamonte Springs, FL
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In article <QVuuYvy00Uo6Nz809z@andrew.cmu.edu> sk0f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Saul Louis Kaplan) writes:
> 
> I have built a database for a utility company and the file size needed is 
> greater than the 32 MEG limit set by DOS.  Has anyone had any experience with 
> this. I am looking for software, which Microrim says exists, which will allow 
> larger DOS partitions.  Please respond.  Thank you.

If you are running a Compaq machine, upgrading to DOS 3.31 will allow disks of
up to 512 MB.  Microsoft should be shipping a generic version of 3.31 in the
near future for other machines. 

If you don't have a Compaq, and can't wait for Microsoft to get out a new DOS,
contact Golden Bow systems.  They have several products for harddisk support, 
one of which is a facility to allow fixed disks > 32 mb.  Golden Bow advertises
in all of the major trades (PC Week, Byte, PC Magazine). 

I have used Golden Bow's Vopt package and have been pleased.


Kurt Arthur
Software Services of Florida, Inc.