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Accessing and/or creating files > 2 GB in DOS? (Users)

posted by Khusraw , Bucharest, Romania, 02.07.2009, 07:55

> FAT+ looks interesting, but individual applications which use signed
> 32-bit numbers to read/write files will probably be broken with the FAT in
> use (?)

The applications which use signed 32-bit numbers to seek in files won't be affected, as they use another function (AH=42h). Reading/writing files is always done using unsigned 16-bit numbers.

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