Hi Christian,

I think that you are not being polite.

You are new here and you start by wanting to change everything. Why 
don't you start by fixing a few bugs?

Alain

Christian Masloch escreveu:
>>> Which app crashes from running on a FAT+ kernel? (Presuming you don't  
>>> even
>>> have that large files, or that the app doesn't access these files.)
>>> Excluding low-level disk utilities such as defragmenting or disk  
>>> checking
>>> programs of course, because EVERY new or extended filesystem breaks  
>>> them.
>> each and every general file handling program like:
>>  COPY, XCOPY, Norton/Volkow Commander, ...
>>  ZIP, RAR, ...
>>  CHKDSK (and don't tell me CHKDSK isn't important), all Norton stuff
>>  xxBACKUP
>>
>> while they probably won't crash, some wont to what they
>> are expected to do.
>>
>> Are you prepared to check the entire ecosystem of DOS utilities if
>> they can handle 4GB+ size files ?
>>
>> it's probably MUCH a better idea to teach this hypotetical blueray
>> player to handle multiple files.
>>
>> that's the reason I think that 4GB+ is a real stupid idea.
> 
> 
>>> (Presuming you don't even
>>> have that large files, or that the app doesn't access these files.)
> 
> I don't think copy or archive utilities would care if they won't access  
> the large files.
> 
>>> Excluding low-level disk utilities such as defragmenting or disk  
>>> checking
>>> programs of course, because EVERY new or extended filesystem breaks  
>>> them.
> 
> I would describe CHKDSK as "defragmenting or disk checking program". I  
> mean, did you even READ my mail? It's not like you have to, but please do  
> if you're going to answer it.
> 
> 
>>> DOS-C's FAT+ support could be set by default
>> I don't care what you do to DOS-C. but the FreeDOS kernel shouldn't
>> support FAT+
> 
> Yo, as mentioned in the previous mails, I refer to the FreeDOS kernel as  
> DOS-C. And maybe you're right, and the FreeDOS kernel needs forking for  
> every feature.
> 
>>> Since DOS-C doesn't (yet) support FAT16 file systems larger than 4 GiB
>> yes another stupid idea.
>>
>>> , FAT16+ is no option anyway.
>> right.
> 
> Sometimes I think your mails aren't worth an answer.
> 
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