Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:49:48 +0100 (MET) From: Mark Habersack Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl To: "Mike A. Harris" cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote: >> > How much disk space does the entire subdirectory tree consume? I mean >> > including all sources and things needed to compile them. >> And including slack on a FAT disk with 32KB clusters, please! ;-) >32k clusters!! Ouch!! I wrote a program to analyze disk wastage on a >"cluster size" basis. With 32k clusters, and the disk being FULL of >files, you'll find that you have 30% disk wastage. Yes, thats right, >I said *THIRTY* percent. This means a 1 gig disk that is full is >wasting 300 megs. Scary eh? Yeah. And I have a 2 gig disk with *one* partition and 30% wasted coz M$ didn't design their FS as they should (probably would cost too much... ;-)) >My program consistently shows that: If you have a cluster size that is >larger than 4k, you are wasting too much disk space. 4k clusters >waste no more than 3% on average. I've done extensive testing on a >great many computers to get these results too. It is possible to change the cluster size, even on huge HDDs, to 4KB - just use Quaterdeck's 'PartitionIt!' - it works great. The only side effect is that your FAT copies grow to ~1M and it gets slow... ;-))) Gods! I wish OpenDOS had built-in support for ext2fs!! Shall we do it? >But don't take my word for it, do the following: I do! ;-)) >If you have 4DOS, go to your root directory and type: > Sure I have! Who hasn't? >FAT SUCKS!!!!!!!! A happy medium is 250Meg FAT partitions. Don't make >them 256 though cause FDISK rounds off to the next highest cylinder >which could push you from 4k to 8k clusters. FAT sucks and it's too fat for our HDDs ;-)) But I don't like partitioning drives - it's almost impossible to recover from some crash when you mess up with vital areas of your disk ;-) >> Try to use NWCDEX. It's a free Novell MSCDEX work-alike. If you can't find >> it, I can email you the executable (20577 bytes packed with RAR). >Please email it to me. I want to TOTALLY rid myself of MS software! >MSCDEX is about the only thing I probably would have missed! I want >to get it to the point where the only thing left is Win 3.1. And even >then only because I need it for WP6.1. I've just heard that NWCDEX is in OpenDOS - if you still want it, I'll pass it along to you. >Maybe Caldera will lower the price of WP6.1 for Linux down to $100 or >so. :o) Then I'll buy it for sure and DESTROY 3.11 forever! I wish Corel had made Corel Ventura for Linux... dreams... But speaking about word processing - have you tried the StarOffice package? I think it is compatible with WP6 file format. And works both on Linux and WinXX!!! And is FREE! >That is GREAT!!!! It will be cool to add code to the DOS kernel! For >my own devices and such. Also to REMOVE unneeded things. I don't >know what yet, but I'm sure I'll find something! And it's FREE! And >I'll have the sources! But when?!?!?! This is worse than >waiting for DOOM to come out a couple of years ago! Or for Win95 to disappear! ;-)) >Hey! That just made me think of something! We could add DOS *CHEAT* >ODMAILBILL - Mails Billy G the contents of your DOS C:\TEMP directory > if you are currently connected to the net. It encrypts > the stuff first though so he can't get anything useful > out of it. COOL!! ;-)) >> And, eventually, take over part of M$ OS market! ;-) > >*PART*? Lets CRUSH THEM!!!!!!! Yeah!!! >> (was it Atari) - but I'm not sure of that. Gene, am I right about anything of >> the above? > >Hmm. Will it run Doze apps, or just custom apps? It'd be nice if it >was like X. Dunno, but don't think so... But, hopefully, I'm wrong. But you'll be able to use X-Emu on OpenDOS! >I've got those in my NS cache. I'm looking for OpenDOS logos though. >I'm going to put up the Caldera ones if I can't find the OD ones >though. If you step upon any of them - let me know! @*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@ Who left the cap off the toothpaste tube, who forgot to flush the loo? Leave your sweaty socks outside the door, don't walk accross my polished floor, oh Judy! - PUNCH A JUDY [...] Propping up a bar, family car, sweating out a mortgage as a balding clerk World war three, suburbanshee, just slip her these pills an I'll be free PUNCH A JUDY. Judy no more! @*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@* http://ananke.amu.edu.pl/~grendel *@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@