Subj : Re: DOS and HPFS
To   : mark lewis
From : Doug Mccomber
Date : Thu Jun 07 2012 08:18 am

 ml> IIRC, it is 2gig or something like that... i use it here, too... in
 ml> all my DOS side ops... it does work but not always... for example, i
 ml> have the original allfix universal which runs mostly from my DOS side
 ml> but it has problems with the disk sizes on my destination drives and
 ml> reports not enough space for a lot of stuff... even with 2gig in
 ml> place... after fighting it quietly for several years, i finally found
 ml> a workaround via a command line parameter that seems to handle it...
 ml> i've not tried converting that particular bit of my system's
 ml> processing to the OS/2 side, though... as it was, i had to move all
 ml> of my allfix processing to my midnight maint due to another problem
 ml> with my netmail area and"file in use" conflicts that shouldn't have
 ml> been happening...

 ml> anyway... [searching] ahhh... here it is!


 ml> 2GBFIX.ZIP      10165 17-Nov-1998
 ml> ============================================== 2GBFIX is a workaround
 ml> for a problem that occurs in DOS and WIN-OS/2 sessions under OS/2
 ml> (and possibly other OSes that provide virtual DOS sessions) when you
 ml> have disks or partitions that exceed 2 GB (2048 MB) in size.

Thanks Mark.  I'll have to give that one a try to see if it solves my 
particular issue as that would be better than re-partitioning.

Regards,
Doug

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