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> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:20:58 -0500
> From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
>  >
>  >What is the size and the time stamp of this old df.exe?
> 
> M:\bin>dir df.*
> 
>   Volume in drive M has no label
>   Volume Serial Number is 1437-18D0
>   Directory of M:\bin
> 
> DF       EXE        74,240  08-26-97  3:08p df.exe
>           1 file(s)         74,240 bytes
>           0 dir(s)   1,632,436,224 bytes free

??? Another mystery?  The binary from the old fil316b.zip is dated
April 18, 1997, and its size is 73216.  At least that's what I have on
two of my machines, and also in the old fil316b.zip.

>  >Since the old binary seems to work better for CDs, I think it is worth
>  >our while to try to understand why.
> 
> I'm not sure those results are "better" in any sense I can 
> quantify.  They *are* different (and lower) than the current statfs.c 
> returns.  And let's not forget that Corel Linux/fileutils 4.1 returns a 
> third different value, somewhere between the 1997 df value and the 
> current statfs.c/AX1510 value.

I'm confused.  Didn't you, or someone else, say that the old df.exe
agreed with Windows Explorer?

If we have more than 2 different answers, and they are all similar,
then I agree that it is a waste of time looking for the reasons for
these small differences.