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   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to All   
   Re: formatting to FAT32   
   03 Apr 11 02:32:03   
   
   Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9   
   ies,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc   
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   comp.os.os2.utilities:163 comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:2078   
   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > P.S. Unfortunately, AFAIU, one cannot add *L functions to FAT32 via a    
   > simple hack: FAT32 volumes may contain FILES between 2GB and 4GB in    
   > size, and these added entry points MUST ALSO support these files.   
   >   
      
   Bah!  It's not exactly rocket science to create exactly that sort of    
   simple support.  One is doing no more than a little bit of arithmetic    
   and ending up with a value to plonk into a field of the sffsi    
   structure.  One merely has to ensure that the "L" entrypoints cannot end    
   up with anything at the end of their calculations that's outwith the    
   possible range of 32-bit values that the non-"L" entrypoints could have    
   calculated, and fail appropriately in such cases.  The hard parts are    
   (a) finding the documentation for the sffsi structure that is passed to    
   the "L" entrypoints, and (b) having the "L" entrypoints do *more* than    
   their 32-bit equivalents.   
      
      
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