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From: wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
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Subject: Re: 8 meg limit
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Date: 29 Jan 91 13:23:04 GMT
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But the size of a disk block can be large, i.e. 1k, 4k even 16k.
Even 1k x 65535 = 64 megs.
  Of course it's hard to imagine doing a DIR to a disk with
64k 1k files.......
Clarence