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From: shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: GS/OS 3.O & ICON INFO
Message-ID: <698@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 25 Aug 89 19:20:12 GMT
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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GS/OS V3.0 has a neat feature in the ICON Information "window" when
displaying a folder and that is a "use calculate icon" msg which
instructs you to click on the calculator icon to get the size info of what 
is contained in the folder.  There doesn't appear to be any reference to
this feature in the $49 manual set :-)   

Anyhow I ran into a strange situation last night.  I asked for the 
information for a folder I had (which contained six files) and clicked on
the calc idon and got the following information:

    SIZE:  126,524 bytes  643K on disk

This seems way out of whack with what I see when I do the same thing on my 
other folders.  I would expect the numbers to be about the same.  I then 
got information for each of the files in the folder individually and I got
the following:

    file 1	577,536 bytes    567k on disk
    file 2       65,496 bytes     65k on disk
    file 3        4,354 bytes      5k on disk
    file 4        2,077 bytes      3k on disk
    file 5        1,041 bytes      2k on disk
    file 6          158 bytes      1k on disk

Can anyone shed some light on this. I thought i knew what this feature
did but with this result I'm not quite sure.

/chris


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