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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > Unfortunately, formatting support for FAT32 was never built into    
   > UFAT32.DLL (that's where it would be implemented). I started    
   > implementing formatting support in UFAT32.DLL but never got it finished.   
   >   
   > You need to format under Windoze or use DFSee (if you have it).   
   >   
   Although not using FAT is, indeed, the better route here, I mention this    
   for completeness:   
      
   I have a Pure 32-Bit FORMAT replacement that will (high-level) format    
   FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32 volumes (where "volume" includes both disc    
   partitions managed by the DASD manager and volume image files created    
   by/suitable for VMDISK).  The only caveat for the task at hand is that    
   it picks which FAT bitness to use according to volume size, and there's    
   currently no manual override option.  So it will only give you a FAT32    
   volume if the volume is too big for FAT16 (or indeed FAT12) to cope    
   with.  On the gripping hand, this is, generally speaking, no more than a    
   simple extension of existing behaviour.  High-level FAT format utilities    
   automatically choose between FAT12 and FAT16 in this very same manner,    
   and (with a scant few exceptions) provide no manual override.   
      
   It should be needless to say that FAT width is independent of extensions    
   to the base FAT format (such as long filename support) for most    
   operating systems (with a few daft exceptions).  There's no actual    
   *need* to override the bitness if all that one wants is long filenames    
   and suchlike.  Furthermore, there's no need to override the bitness just    
   because something is a data exchange volume.  All of the participating    
   operating systems will understand FAT12 and FAT16 if they understand    
   FAT32, after all.  But that brings us back to the first point, that the    
   data exchange partition need not even be FAT at all to be commonly    
   understood, and it may well be better for it not to be.   
      
   One person (possibly) reading this will be (possibly) surprised to learn    
   that xe is already in possession of a FAT disc volume that was    
   high-level formatted with this tool.  (-:   
      
      
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