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Re: dBase 5 for DOS Network Drive Space Prob.

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From: Romain Strieff [TeamB]
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:00
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In article <36DC234E.713D553E@tco.net>, Lisa Lynch politely paraphrased 
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> 
> I'm on a TCP/IP network with a sun UNIX server.  I'm running dVase for
> DOS under Win 95.  Having a problem with any queries/reports.  Every
> time I try to create a new one or run an existing one.  dBase tells me
> that there is not enough disk space to perform this operation. Please
> help!!
> 
Like all DOS programs, dBase uses an interrupt to query the OS about the 
available space, due to a bug in most DOS versions, it returns a negative 
value on partitions having more than 2GB free space. Create a smaller 
partition or mount such a one to run such programs on.
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From: teamb@opto-pps.com (Romain Strieff [TeamB])
Subject: Re: dBase 5 for DOS Network Drive Space Prob.
Date: 1999/03/02
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