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From: russ@bbx.UUCP (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: >32 Meg Partitions
Summary: MS-DOS bug in *large* files
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Date: 20 Apr 89 22:35:21 GMT
References: <2121@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
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In article <2121@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> jal@ee.rochester.edu (John Lefor) writes:
>As I recall Compaq DOS 3.31 and DOS 4.x do support disk
>partitions bigger than 32Meg.

On a similar note Microsoft has admitted to a bug (surprise,
surprise) in MS-DOS 4.01.  It would seem that accessing a file
greater than 32Mb in length in particular patterns would cause
'fata corruption' in the file.

For a reference see the April 17 issue of Info World, page 3.

Microsoft is offering a patch on its' Compuserve porum and claims
that versions shipped after April 7 don't contain the error.  I 
wonder how we are supposed to tell if the version that we get was
shipped after April 7th?

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