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Dir returns stuck bytes free

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First post, by eoredson

Posted on 2019-03-04, 03:44

eoredson Offline

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Why does DIR in DOSbox always return 262,111,744 bytes free??

Erik.

Links to my MUD

Dndbbs executables
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2E.ZIP

Dndbbs source
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2S.ZIP

Dndbbs upgrade (10/15/2019)
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2U.ZIP

Reply 1 of 3, by eoredson

Posted on 2019-03-04, 03:53

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I am running Win10 if that helps..

Links to my MUD

Dndbbs executables
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2E.ZIP

Dndbbs source
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2S.ZIP

Dndbbs upgrade (10/15/2019)
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2U.ZIP

Reply 2 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on 2019-03-04, 04:07

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That's intentional. If it were to show a true value of bytes free it'd overflow and confuse many install programs that you have no disk space.

Reply 3 of 3, by eoredson

Posted on 2019-03-04, 04:23

eoredson Offline

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Ok, thanks, I thought it was an arbitrary number based on some LONG value stuck to 256MB or less..

Links to my MUD

Dndbbs executables
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2E.ZIP

Dndbbs source
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2S.ZIP

Dndbbs upgrade (10/15/2019)
http://www.filegate.net/pdn/pdnbasic/DND50A2U.ZIP

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