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Re: FW: reported vs actual file sizes

In a message dated 6/25/99 10:43:38 AM PST, DMcCunney@roper.com writes:

>  (NT through 4.0 does not grok Fat32.  NT 5.0 
>  is supposed to be able to.)  These can use smaller clusters for more
>  efficient storage.
W2K does fine at reading and writing FAT32 partitions, but not at running on 
them.  IMHO it wouldn't hurt to mention that cygwin runs better on NTFS 
partitions and it's not too good to install W2K on FAT in the hope of W9X or 
older NT versions being able to deal with it.

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