Getting a 7 gig file onto an MS-DOS (fat) drive?

Trying to deliver a Quicktime movie file to a client ... who has supplied me with a drive that's pre-formatted MS-DOS (fat). I have this memory that MS-DOS (fat) can't handle files bigger than 2 gigs. I wonder how the PC world manages big movie files?
Is there a work around? Or something I can do that I haven't heard about? I can't reformat the drive, it has to work on her PC, and it's already half full of her own materials/files.
If there is no way to do this, can I get her another drive and format it to some alternate format that will allow me to dump this movie file on it (from my MacBook Pro), and yet allow her read write access when it's plugged into her PC?
All ears ...
Ben

Thank you Niel and Michael, very helpful.
I notice my 'Disk Utitlity' will let me re-format this particular MS-DOS (FAT) drive as an ExFAT. Is that what you mean Niel? Maybe my MacBook Pro already has whatever software is required to do this?
I've saved my clients data somewhere else, and am going to try and reformat her drive as ExFAT, and then see if it will take these big movie files.
Your help is mucho appreciated,
Ben

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