04 Jul 15 21:36, you wrote to Mike Luther:   
      
    MikeL>> use at least one 'blank line' at the end of the CONFIG.SYS file to   
    MikeL>> solve some strange error problems in some systems.   
      
    EV> When a software program is set up to expect something and it isn't   
    EV> there, it causes software to BURP!   
      
    MikeL>> As well DOS operations under OS/2 cannot 'normally' handle more   
    MikeL>> than a 2GB file partition as far as I know under a lot of DOS   
    MikeL>> stuff I still use.   
      
    EV> That would take more partitions than there are file letters on a 250GB   
    EV> HDD.   
      
   yup! it takes C thru L to do 2Gig partitions on a 40Gig drive... if one goes   
   that way...   
      
    EV> But I have read in this echo of a work-around but I can't recall what   
    EV> it was called right now.   
      
   yep... on OS/2 there's a special "driver" that is loaded in the DOS tasks...   
   it is called 2gbfix.com... it is little more than a TSR... what it does is to   
   intercept the calls to the drive space checking routines... if they report   
   negative numbers (because of the signed number rollover), then it alters the   
   response so that it returns 2gb or less than 2gb so that the DOS program will   
   see a valid positive number instead of an invalid negative one...   
      
   the largest value available for older DOS programs is stored in a longint (aka   
   long integer)... a longint is a signed integer 32bits in length making it 4   
   bytes in size... it has the range of -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647, or -2^31   
   to 2^31-1... when the value reaches the maximum positive value, it rolls over   
   to the bottom most value and keeps on incrementing as before... once the value   
   passes 2gb, it is negative and will remain negative for another 2gb of   
   counting until it reaches zero and goes positive again... there is no unsigned   
   32bit storage capability for large values in old DOS programs...   
      
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