Subj : DOS and HPFS
To : Doug Mccomber
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jun 06 2012 04:14 pm
> Can I use DOS programs that manipulate files on an HPFS partition
> that is greater than 2gb in size?
BS> I believe you can, as long as that program doesn't check for 'free
BS> space' or anything about drive space. I have a OS2 TSR program
BS> here that that I use that fools DOS programs into thinking there's
BS> always 2gb or less space available.
DM> Interesting. What is the name of that TRS program?
IIRC, it is 2gig or something like that... i use it here, too... in all my DOS
side ops... it does work but not always... for example, i have the original
allfix universal which runs mostly from my DOS side but it has problems with
the disk sizes on my destination drives and reports not enough space for a lot
of stuff... even with 2gig in place... after fighting it quietly for several
years, i finally found a workaround via a command line parameter that seems to
handle it... i've not tried converting that particular bit of my system's
processing to the OS/2 side, though... as it was, i had to move all of my
allfix processing to my midnight maint due to another problem with my netmail
area and "file in use" conflicts that shouldn't have been happening...
anyway... [searching] ahhh... here it is!
2GBFIX.ZIP 10165 17-Nov-1998
==============================================
2GBFIX is a workaround for a problem that
occurs in DOS and WIN-OS/2 sessions under OS/2
(and possibly other OSes that provide virtual
DOS sessions) when you have disks or
partitions that exceed 2 GB (2048 MB) in size.
it is FREQable from my system via POTS or FTN over Telnet... or one can POTS
dial or telnet in to the bbs proper and download it... then there's also my web
and ftp servers which also have it available... choose your poison ;)
