Re: OS 8.1 & HFS+ THE ANSWER ?

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From: Alan R Barker
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 00:00

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Gordon Laurie wrote:

> According to the manual that came with Plusmaker it automatically gives you
> 0.5k blocks, I can't remember for sure what size the blocks are on my
> external drive, but checking with MacSlack it would appear to have done
> 0.5k blocks.
>
> Just checked with Norton, yes 512byte blocks. Curious.
>

Well, after consulting Alsoft, it seems I was interpeting the 'Get Info' dialogue
box too literally - it always rounds up to the nearest K. After experimenting with
very small files in a temporary folder, I have now come to the conclusion that it
really does create 0.5K blocks.

I trust I haven't put anyone off using the tool!

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