I've not written or edited a lot of files using the command line in XP but
it seems to be able to read and write to any supported file system without
problems. Hard to say exactly what is handling that but I seriously doubt
I'll be calling any interrupts in my batch program. :^)
Thanks again for your thoughtful replies and responsiveness.
Bruce
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:50 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
> <bruce.bow...@tds.net> wrote:
> >
> > One correction: on my XP machine using the CMD command interpreter,
> whichfat
> > reports every existing drive as FAT16. I guess that kinda makes sense as
> > it's the native format for DOS and I guess Windows converts file formats
> > before doing disk i/o.
>
> No. I forgot that XP is fairly braindead. It's not a real DOS, it's
> just a buggy VM (NTVDM). It's not totally reliable, sadly. DOS is dead
> to them, so they don't fix bugs or even maintain the code.
>
> XP fails on a lot of FAT32 stuff, but I don't honestly know offhand
> what WHICHFAT tries to do. Presumably you can read the FAT partition
> directly (but maybe? Windows forbids it?). Or maybe it's checking the
> volume type, but I forget which int 21h call that is. (I guess I
> should look, but the point is that XP is unreliable for some DOS
> things, though admittedly nice when it does work.)
>
> P.S. Not 100% what I was thinking of, but check this:
>
> http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/rbinter/id/23/32.html
>
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