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Re: [ECS] Potential ECS Newbie with lots of questions Bill Walters Fri, 05 Feb 1999 23:35:05 -0600

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Kevin,

FAT16 versus FAT 32 doesn't have anything to do, to my knowledge, with
being able to run 32bit applications.  I was using W95, OSR1 for quite a
while, with FAT16 (only choice prior to OSR2) and ran 32-bit and 16-bit
applications interchangably. 

FAT32 has to do with disk formatting; the reason you cannot interlink
between FAT16 and FAT32 is lost to me, but I do know you cannot do it. 
I guess INTERLINK sends specific HD stuff along with files, etc.  You
certainly CAN share files, via network, with complete confidence between
FAT16 and FAT32 machines; I do it everyday here.

The only advantage I found to FAT32 was the savings of hard disk space
with very large drives; cluster sizes are small, thereby saving valuable
space when saving small files.

As to WINAMP and ACE; well, I'm -just- getting started with ACE.  Don't
confuse me with all the WINAMP stuff yet.  Besides, my drives are too
small <grin!>

Bill Walters

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