Sorry for any confusion caused.

The API calls are actually

GetDiskFreeSpace
GetDiskFreeSpaceEx



Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone 03 377 0495
fax 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net


> Hi Richard
>
> I see that you are catching up with your emails at the moment.  I just
> wondered if you could confirm that there is a bug in the BDE (all
versions)
> that causes it to incorrectly report the amount of free disk space with
> drives that have over 2GB free space.
>
> We recently encountered this issue on a clients machine and found
reference
> to a BDE bug caused by Borland using an obsolete API call (GetDiskSpace
> instead of GetDiskSpaceEX).  Do you know if this is supposed to be fixed
or
> if it remains unresolved?  We believe it is causing a number of clients
> major problems (now that they have all upgraded their machines they are
> running out of drive space).  If it has not been fixed is there an
official
> (or un official) work around?
>
> Yes I have already searched Google groups etc.  This is how I found
> reference to the problem.
>
>
> Rob Martin
> Software Engineer
>
> phone 03 377 0495
> fax 03 377 0496
> web www.chreos.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Vowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:24 PM
> Subject: RE: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net
>
>
> > VB != VB.NET
> >
> > Or should that be
> >
> > VB <> VB.NET?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
> > Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2004 12:25 p.m.
> > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> > Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Delphi 8 and .net
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > One minute you say 400K use C#, I've had 6 Million as the number of VB
> > Programmers, which make 6.7% if all C# programmers came from VB, I don't
> > consider that a "large number"
> >
> >
> >
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