Some senseless babbling from Peter Knapper to All
on 11-27-99  12:26 about >2Mb drive issues....

 PK> Hi Folks,

 PK> While browsing around my system the other day I discovered the
 PK> following piece from my \IBMLAN\IBMLAN.INI file -

 PK> =======================================================================
 PK> = ; 35  free disk space reported to DOS and Windows applications
 PK> ;        0 = return true value (default)
 PK> ;        1 = return a value less than two gigabytes
 PK> ;
 PK> ; The next lines help you to locate bits in the wrkheuristics entry.
 PK> ;                           1         2         3         4
 PK> ;                 012345678901234567890123456789012345678901
 PK> wrkheuristics = 111111112131111111000101112011122100111110
 PK> ^
 PK> |
 PK> Change this bit to 1!
 PK> =======================================================================
 PK> = 
 PK> So if you have DOS/Windows clients accessing large volumes on an OS/2
 PK> machine across a LAN, then it appears that you can have OS/2 respond to
 PK> them with an acceptable disk space value without requiring extra
 PK> utilities. 
 PK> I haven't tried it but it may be useful to someone...........pk.

You don't have to limit this to LAN drives.  By mapping a drive letter to a
local share, you can use the same functionality locally.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... Conservatives! Looks like we'll have to blast our way in!

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