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How to burn CD in DOS? 2 GB limit ? DVD crap ... (Users)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 19.12.2007, 17:38

> > OK, thx. I don't know about FAT32+. I quickly looked to fatplus.txt and
> > see they use some reserved bits in FAT32 directory entry to extend
> 32bit
> > size value. It may work well for apps which understand it.
> which hardly exist. (AFAIK they don't exist at all. IMHO FAT32+ is a
> specification of something that will never be implemented)
Well, only EDR-DOS has it now. And it's hard to write compatible apps for an API that doesn't exist (e.g. FreeDOS).

>
> > But what will
> > say scandisk or NDD to it when found that file had allocated more
> clusters
> > in FAT chains than is marked in size filed in dir entry? I guess it
> will
> > try to truncate file
> right.
>
> and COPY/XCOPY/Volkow Commander will copy only filesize % 4Gb
> etc., show wrong directory info, etc. pp
Obviously, avoid using any of your previous low-level tools in such a case. I'm sure FD XCOPY could be updated, but the other closed-src stuff (Volkov) ... no way. But anyways, in DOS, most files aren't that huge, so the issue is pretty moot (unless you want to rip DVDs a lot, heh).

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