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echo: lan
to: BRUCE LANE
from: JONATHAN HUNTER
date: 1997-04-01 23:17:00
subject: Needed Info

Hello Bruce!
27 Mar 97 22:45, Bruce Lane wrote to Pedro Cardoso:
 PC>> Could someone please tell me if there is a Network Program for
 PC>> DOS that can use more than the DOS 26 letters limitation ?
 BL>     This limitation is there because DOS is a 16-bit OS. It does not
 BL> exist in Linux because Linux is 32-bit.
What are you wibbling on about? Please explain why you think that this
limitation is due to the 16-bit nature of DOS. Linux doesn't even USE drive
letters, BTW, so that's one possible reason for the lack of the limit.
Oh, and DOS *can* use more than 26 drive letters.
Jonathan
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