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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.0
Message-ID: <2940@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 17:01:32 GMT
References: <611@wa3wbu.UUCP> <6065@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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In article <6065@spool.cs.wisc.edu> thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) writes:
<In article <611@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
<>
<>      Has anyone installed PC-DOS 4.0 yet ?  I saw an interesting blurb
<>that stated that if you have larger than a 32MB disk, "share" will be
<>installed automatically.  Now I know a new feature of 4.0 is to support
<>disk partitions larger than 32 MB but........   Is the new version truely
<>allowing more than 65535 total sectors or is it playing some "hidden"
<>games with the "share" facility to make you beleive you have one big
<>partition ?  Any information is appreciated.
<What I would like to know is if they will allow for 2K clusters. Large 
<partitions sound nice but I am not looking forward to 8K blocks! 

I just did a check on my 70 MB drive, split into 40 and 30, using MS-DOS 3.31.
It supports > 32 MB and it used 2K clusters.  I suspect that MS/PC-DOS 4.00
will also use 2K clusters.
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