-=> Quoting Lee Aroner to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LA>   > FCBS=16,8
 LA>    Set this to "8,4"
 
 ML> Nonsense.  Programmers of old DOS programs used FCBs long after
 ML> DOS 1.x came out, even though the documentation told them not to (who
 ML> reads the docs?).  What to set FCBS= depends on which DOS programs you
 ML> are running, not what version of DOS they were written under (something
 ML> you have no way of knowing unless you wrote them ).
 
 LE> Actually, I seem to recall hearing that MS-DOS has dropped support for
 > FCBS as of version 6 or 7. I know they've been *warning* programmers
 > since version 5 (or earlier) that those functions where not to be used,
 > because they'd be dropped at some future time.

 LA> This is the usual case of MS's "Do as I say, not as I do", since 
 LA> Command.Com continues to use FCBs for fast directlry deletions, 
 LA> just as I do.

Try it under MS-DOS v6.x. Then try it in a Win 95 or 98 DOS "window"
(or with the system booted to the MS-DOS 7 that Win 9x runs on top of).

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