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to: Jack Stein
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1999-11-05 09:16:01
subject: M$ `screw you` FAT32

 DD>> I'm responding to this in a motel room in Houston, TX., but when I
 DD>> get  back home, I'll post the exact information being shown by
 DD>> OS/2's FDISK ie;  the Type B partition, the unusual Freespace sizes
 DD>> being reported, etc.

 JDBP>> The results of FDISK /QUERY and the output of PARTLIST (from
 JDBP>> the OS/2 Command Line Utilities version 2.0, OS2CLU02.RAR on
 JDBP>> Andy's BBS and elsewhere) would probably be the most helpful
 JDBP>> to people.

 JS> I think he might need OS/2 installed to do that though, but thats just
 JS> a guess:-)  

No he doesn't need OS/2 installed at all.  One can run both PARTLIST and FDISK 
/QUERY when one has booted from the installation floppy discs and pressed F3
to invoke a command line.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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