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.

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


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