Obscure DOS question

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Tue Mar 29 14:38:10 CST 2005


> Liam wrote:
>> It's not an MS-DOS limit, it's a FAT16 limit.

I wrote:
> No, it isn't.  FAT16 doesn't care, as I've demonstrated.

Correction.  I previously demonstrated that FAT12 doesn't care.
I've now done a second experiment and determined that FAT16 also
can have well over 512 root directory entries.

It's all a matter of getting the file system formatted that
way, which the usual MS-DOS format command won't.

Eric



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