Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-22 Thread Liam Proven
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:59 AM, dos386 wrote: >> Compaq MS-DOS 3.31, large FAT32 partitions with up to 32 sectors >> per cluster for partitions up to 2GB > > You meant probably: > > Compaq MS-DOG 3.31, large FAT16 partitions with up to 64 sectors > per cluster (32 KiB) for partitions up to almos

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-22 Thread dos386
> Compaq MS-DOS 3.31, large FAT32 partitions with up to 32 sectors > per cluster for partitions up to 2GB You meant probably: Compaq MS-DOG 3.31, large FAT16 partitions with up to 64 sectors per cluster (32 KiB) for partitions up to almost 2 GiB -- ~~~ wow ~~~ ---

[Freedos-user] dir formats.

2010-05-22 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I'm at the library, but briefly, the "weird" format is like 16-bit dos, except for the last few lines, which in dos or cmd list 'x files' then 'y 'directories. The format I get has all the items, whether file or dir, listed together as files. In other words, if I dir an empty dir I should

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout comments

2010-05-22 Thread Liam Proven
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:38 AM, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br wrote: > Recently posted in this list: > >>(Alain Mouette) >>No it has never been illegal, and it always worked >>just fine. I use these since forever... what happened >>is that most tools did not have a way of making them, >>but if you