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echo: dos_internet
to: mark lewis
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2003-05-20 02:34:28
subject: NETMAIL?

-=> Quoting mark lewis to Leonard Erickson <=-

 ml>> doable... but i'm not aware of the problem with dec 31,
 ml>> 2107... other than it being the last one before 2108
 ml>> rolls around...
 
 LE> Simple. The year field in a DOS file date is seven bits. the
 LE> value stored there is stored as an *unsigned* 7 bit integer
 LE> offset from 1980.

 ml> ahhh, yes... this is restricted to FAT12 and FAT16 formatted file
 ml> systems, correct? 
 ml> )\/(ark

I'm not sure as I don't have docs for FAT-32. But I seriously doubt
that *DOS* can deal with it if FAT-32 has changed that field.

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