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andyross@infopls.chi.il.us (Andrew Rossmann) writes:

> russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
> 
>> the old version of disk compression software I have here insisted on 8k
> 
>   What software was that? Although Stacker may want to insist on 8K

an old version (if you need to know `an old version of what' mail me - I
have no reason to slander these people just because I didn't send in my
registration card)  (or is that libel?  no matter)

> clusters, it really isn't wasted space. If a file can fit in one or two
> sectors (after compression), that's how much space will actually be
> allocated in the Stacker volume. DOS will THINK it's using a full 8K, but it
> isn't.

I'd tested it by creating one-byte (well, far less than 512) files, and
I kept getting `disk full' after not a lot of them - I wasn't going on
the `estimated space available' thingies.

at least, I'm pretty sure I was.  it was about a year ago that I tried it,
and I didn't save the log files or anything, but that's how I remember it...
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Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c