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" cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] Re: OpenDOS to be released next week! (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: Total disorganization. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk 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. My dynamic address: http://blackwidow.saultc.on.ca/~mharris/ip-address.html mailto:mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca LINUX: What changed from 2.0.27 to 2.0.28? I don't notice anything.