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Re: Eunice can't deal with 5-part newsgroup names

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From: egisin
Date: Tue, 19 May 1987 20:03
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In article <18960@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, leres@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Leres) writes:
> The directory depth limit doesn't bother me nearly as much as the lack
> of performance the VMS filesystem displays. (For the most part) it does
> 512 byte disk I/O. Note that the BSD "fast" filesystem does 8k disk I/O
> by default.

I'm pretty sure the default for disk I/O by RMS for sequential files
is 16 blocks, or 8K. The C RTL (and Eunice?) bypass most of RMS
for Stream-LF files and do block I/O with 512 byte blocks.
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From: egisin@orchid.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice
Subject: Re: Eunice can't deal with 5-part newsgroup names
Message-ID: <7655@orchid.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 16:03:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 16:03:05 1987
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