>> possibly win xp loads a driver that stops DOS programs
>> from seeing more than 2gig, 2gig plus is a DOS limitation....

 RW> *shrugs*  I would just hate to have to repartition the
 RW> drives on this machine and reinstall the OS. :(  Is there
 RW> any workaround you can do codewise to optionally prevent
 RW> the disk space check?

either that or specifically check for the negative value and subtract that
from 2gb the same as 2gbfix.com does on OS/2 ;)

)\/(ark