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to: Mike Ruskai
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1996-02-07 16:02:22
subject: Cluster algorithm

Mike Ruskai wrote in a message to David Noon:

 MR> DosQueryFSInfo is not a REXX internal function, nor is it part of
 MR> the  REXXUTIL dynamic link library.  

 DN> If you use a REXX extension DLL like REXXLIB, there should be a
 DN> routine that will provide your program with the cluster size of any
 DN> given partition. In REXXLIB it's called DOSDISK().

 DN> Most of these DLL's are on the Hobbes CD or can be ftp'ed from same.

 MR> I figured there would be some somewhere, but the whole point
 MR> is to stick to  what OS/2 has without third-party
 MR> intervention.  I'm distributing this  program so people can
 MR> see exactly what effect HPFS will have on their  system with
 MR> regards to drive usage.

If that is the case, then you have two reasonable options:

1.  Write your program in C instead of REXX, where you have access to the
system API calls that you need.

2.  Write your own REXX DLL in C, and provide access to the system API
calls that you need.
 
-- Mike


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