Re: Integer overflow in drive capacity

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On Sunday 03 June 2007 12:30, Frank Cox wrote:
> I remember that there used to be a TSR that would hide most of the space on
> a large hard drive so programs that checked for free space with a
> single-precision variable and the like won't overflow and say that there is
> insufficient free space.

Sorry, I don't know the answer to that one.

> Second, would the capability to hide free disk space from DOS programs be a
> good thing to add to DOSEMU natively, triggered by some sort of optional
> directive?

Probably.

You can also get around the problem by storing your files on a loopback 
filesystem of an appropriate size (see the "losetup" command).
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