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From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 07:04:23 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
To: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd)
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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?


Mike A. Harris        |             http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris
Computer Consultant   |    My webpage has moved and my address has changed.
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LINUX: What changed from 2.0.27 to 2.0.28?  I don't notice anything.

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