From: king621@nospicedham.comcast.net   
      
   I'm writing 16 bit real mode programming using NASM.  I will have a text   
   editor and need to do file open, save, copy in FAT16 file system.  The   
   partition is 2GB and cluster size is 32k. I don't know exactly how much   
   memory space will be available - hopefully much of   
   0x00600 to 0xA0000. It will not necessarily work on any PC - we'll see.   
      
   My question.  File operations need to access a 256 sector FAT (128k) and   
   a 32 sector root directory (16K), and files could need 32k open at a   
   time - ideally more. The I've never done anything like this.  I assume   
   the file operations are done accessing parts of FAT and root at a time   
   and not the whole 144k.  144k is a lot of space.  I need to have a   
   smaller FAT and smaller cluster size. I also need to juggle between   
   portion of file in memory and portion on disk at a given time.  Any   
   suggestions?  TIA.   Bill S.   
      
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