Hello Peter,

On Mar 01 09:05 in a msg to Poe Lim, Peter Knapper of 3:772/1.10 wrote:

 CW> We have found recently that while greater than 2GB partitions
 CW> appear fine in technical operation, some applications have problems
 CW> with them, regarding their space available checking. We noted some
 CW> DOS, WIN, 95, and OS/2 apps report no space available (on a bare
 CW> ~2.5GB partition) during initial installation runs; that machine
 CW> was later repartitioned using only <=2GB sized partitions. 

 PL> So I noticed; one way around that is when the partition 
 PL> free-space drops below 2Gb; then the programs are happy.

 PK> If I remember from past discussions correctly, this is probably a
 PK> case of the problem apps using a 'signed long integer' for their
 PK> space (-2,xxx,xxx,xxx to +2,xxx,xxx,xxx) instead of an 'unsigned
 PK> long integer' (0 - 4,xxx,xxx,xxx). In either case, unless apps are
 PK> using something larger than 'long integers' to hold their values,
 PK> many apps will still probably fail once the partition size is over
 PK> the 4GB limit as well..................pk.

If that's the case, I'm disappointed that Netscape/2 is one of those apps.


Cheers,
Poe

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