From: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: zoneinfo
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:46:43 -0500
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pneyz wrote:
> 
> > I have a question that I hope someone might be able to answer.
> > I recently started experimenting with Gnu, and it's working
> > fine.  And so far I cannot see what the 'zoneinfo' stuff is
> > for.  I'm running under Win95 (I know,... I know,...).  Is
> > that stuff for X-Windows?  Do I need those files?  There are
> > 473 of them, at 32768 bytes each, which is an awful waste
> > of disk space if not needed.  Any information would be much
> > appreciated.  Thanks.

what the zoneinfo files are is a FAQ. you can decide whether to keep
them or not after reading that. an interim solution is to zip the
contents of that directory.

> Strange, but they only take up 309,132 bytes on my system. It doesn't
> look like any of them are over 1.5kb either.

and, for you, welcome to the world of cluster sizes. except when using
fat32, the fat based file systems allocate disk space not in bytes, but
in 'allocation units' you can have a max of 65536 allocation units per
drive, so if you have a disk drive with >1.0 Gb capacity, a 1-byte file
takes up 32k.

  -- Sinan