Date   : Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:58:24 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Back from Byte-Back!

Joel Rowbottom wrote:
> the DIM statement and running out of memory). I'm sure JGH would know off
> the top of his head what the maximum really is.
 
The filestructure uses a 3-byte sector address, with each sector
containing 256 bytes. That gives 2^32 bytes.
 
However, the API calls pass the drive number in the top three bits,
so that gives an accessible drive maximum of 2^29 bytes=512M.
 
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