08 Feb 95 09:03, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to David Bannister:

 >>
 >>  JdeBP> So explain *why* it isn't true.
 >> Maybe because I have documented HPFS?

 JdBP>   I ask for an explanation for your two word assertion, and instead of
 JdBP>   getting one, I get condescension ?

Sorry you took it that way Jonathan.  I gave you the best possible answer
"I have documented HPFS."  You must understand that information
such as this(HPFS) has value.

 >> A limitation of the driver, not HPFS.
 DB>>

 JdBP>   That's exactly what I said.  I'll leave it quoted.  I even went so far
 JdBP>   (in another post) to ask who (if it turns out to be the case) we could
 JdBP>   complain to in order to get it fixed.

 JdBP>   How come you are being so argumentative anyway ?

Again, I am sorry that you perceive this as an argument.  I responded to a
person that said that "HPFS has a 64GB" limit.  I pointed this
out as "not true", that person was not you.  You responded to my
"Not true" statement. Things like this happen in a medium such as
Fido.

 JdBP>   This thread started because up until now I had always believed that
 JdBP>   HPFS had a 2 Terabyte limitation.  I asked whether anyone had any hard
 JdBP>   evidence to confirm the 64Gb rumours, such as a detailed explanation
 JdBP>   of why such a limitation would exist given the 32-bit sector
 JdBP>   addressing scheme used by HPFS (why such an odd number of bits, for
 JdBP>   example).

I think the main problem is that people are confusing HPFS.ifs et al with
the logical HPFS format.  The HPFS logical format, which I know, will
handle 2T. The HPFS.ifs, which I do not have source access to, has a
significantly lower limit.

 >> Want another opinion on this? Check out Duncan's HPFS
 >> article for MSJ.
 DB>>

 JdBP>   You haven't been following the thread properly.  That is where we
 JdBP> started.

Why so hostile.  Correct, I got in on this thread when someone
said "HPFS has a 64GB" limit.  Now if they had said that
HPFS.ifs, or some other part, limits hpfs volume sizes to 64GB I would not
have responded.

Hey, while I have your attention...  How did OWF work for you?
Are you a believer?

To All: For those of you that freq'd or FTP'd the OWF.lzh package please let me
know how it went for you.

David

PS - Jonathan, let me stress again that the written form of communications
does not lend itself well to true expression.  I am not out to be
argumentative, just informative.  If I have come across too 'strong' then I
apologize.


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