Mail Archives: opendos/1997/01/28/22:08:24
On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > > friends 1.2gig and he has a 800meg main, and a 400meg D:, even though the
> > > main uses 8k's, it's fairly ok because most of his programs are those big
> > > Win95 space occupiers.
> >
> > Drives between 256 and 512M are 8k so the 800 should be 16k clusters
> > and the 400 should be 8k. From what I've seen analyzing Win'95
>
> Ever commit a typo and not spot it till Pine reports that it's sending:)
Yes, several times. I think that you can edit outgoing mail if it is
queued, I'll have to look into it to be sure though.
> > partitions, the file wastage is the same. Unless there are BIG files
> > taking up the majority of space on one of those drives, then the
> > cluster wastage is still a concern. I suggest testing out the wastage
>
> Very Big Files, they tend to be anywhere from 160k on up. He has no small
> programs. One of them is the IBM Speech to Text program, the main driver
> program is about 800k, (I think, it's been a while since I got down and
> dirty with his machine.)
I've heard that Netware lets you use the unused space in clusters that
are half full. I wonder if this is true, and I also wonder if it will
be in OpenDOS?
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