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Article #3300Re: info mystery, where's 50k?
From: Larry Phillips
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 22:10
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 22:10
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In <2623676e:1329.1comp.sys.amiga.tech;1@tronsbox.UUCP>, dfrancis@tronsbox.UUCP (Dennis Francis Heffernan) writes: > I've been using a command called DSPACE, and *it* says that my disks >have a capacity of ~901K.... > > Eh, they're all in the ballpark. :-) Ballpark? Well, 901K is actually in the ballpark if you count a K as 1000, and if you are interested in counting all the overhead bytes. I'm not a lumber dealer, so I count K as 1024. -larry -- Entomology bugs me. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: info mystery, where's 50k? Message-ID: <1395@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 10 Apr 90 22:10:13 GMT Lines: 19 Return-Path: <lpami!lphillips> To: van-bc!rnews