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From: ez004560@pollux.ucdavis.edu (0040;0000008314;0;250;143;)
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Subject: Re: 488 bytes/block???
Keywords: This has probably been asked before.
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Date: 4 Aug 89 04:20:36 GMT
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In article <16036@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> 128a-2ex@e260-2e.berkeley.edu (Karl Thiessen) writes:
>In my previous article I write:
>>Karl Thiessen -- 128-2ex@web.berkeley.edu  --  Magic lies in all gifts.
	Yes, you are the only one. The 488 figure is the correct one.

The 512 one is a vicious lie.
(ARP tells the truth, but C= does not.)
The difference is due to the WELL KNOWN fact that the old filing system
has some overhead per sector, which means only 488 bytes of actual
data are stored on a sector where 512 of them would fit.
This is fixed in the new filing system.
(Try the two programs on a hard drive using the new filing system)
(PLEASE! no one else respond!)

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