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From: doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Cat files <where?>
Message-ID: <1991May30.045606.18149@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 04:56:06 GMT
References: <1991May29.222408.27731@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <1991May29.222408.27731@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gun control is a firm grip) writes:
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>Recently I had to add a section of ~20 lines to my mountlist and wanted an 
>easy way of doing it <other than typing it all in> but I didnt know if a
>"Cat" command existed on my WB disk <1.3> and where I could find one. I 
>ended up sending it to my unix account and typing 
>cat <file1> <file2> > <newfile>

There are may unix 'cat' clones out there, but most do not allow the
creation of a file with re-direction.  AmigaDOS supplies a 'join' command
to do the same thing.

join <file1> <file2> AS <newfile>

>anyway, I got FFS up and running on my 500 for no real reason other to have
>something else to play with and when I type "info" it says on my FF1: disk
><its FFS formatted> "876 K free". I thought FFS allowed for MORE memory
><4%> to be stored on floppies?

The 'info' command is a little deceptive when it comes to the FFS.  Info
lists free disk space in blocks instead of bytes.  The problem here is that
a FFS block is larger than a normal DOS block.  I don't have my documentation
in front of me, but I believe a DOS block is 448 bytes and an FFS is 512 bytes
long.  There will be fewer blocks on a FFS disk and 'info' doesn't currently
take FFS into account (WB1.3.3) in its drive capacity calculations.  Disks
formatted with the FFS will actually appear smaller to 'info' even though this
is not the case at all.  I had the darndest time trying to figure out why my
SCSI 85M harddrive only formatted to 82M under FFS!

>thanks

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