Obscure DOS question

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Eric Smith wrote:

> Sellam wrote:
> > MS-DOS 3.3 has a limit of 512 entries in the root directory.  I have a
> > need to put more than this.
>
> Hey!  Weren't you one of the people complaining that cctalk isn't
> a PC support forum?

Excuse me.  There's a MAJOR difference between an MS-DOS 3.3 question of
which there is little info available online (yes, I looked) and an XP
question of which there is TONS of info online.

Let's not play semantical games, please.

> If you aren't able to run the Linux mkdosfs command yourself, I can
> send you a ZIP file containing an otherwise empty floppy image
> created as described above, and you can use rawrite.exe or equivalent
> to write it onto a real floppy disk.

Thanks for the offer, but I'd need to format a hard drive thusly.  This is
a decent solution if I can't come up with anything else.

Thanks!

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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