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From: post@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (The Postman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A single 850K file won't find on a floppy.
Keywords: file-system overhead, directory, file header, file-block list
Message-ID: <1898@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 19:49:17 GMT
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Joe Smith writes:

>I created an 850K zoo file on a Unix system, copied it to my hard disk, and
>then tried to copy it to a floppy.  It didn't fit!  I know you can't put an
>880K file onto an 880K floppy, but I hadn't added up the overhead until now.

[stuff deleted about block calculation etc...]

To get around this problem, you might try using a program called DosKwik.
The two programs Readkwik, Ritekwik write directly to tracks in amigados
format (ie you can diskcopy them) but don't have any file overhead (ie not
a legal dos disk, sorta like kickstart) just the raw image.  I have found
that a disk holds over 900K this way.

The program is found on a Fish Disk somewhere.

Lenny Post

Member/Exec of AMUC (The AMiga Users of Calgary)

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