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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block"
Message-ID: <270@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 23:22:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: nuchat.270
Posted: Wed Jul 29 23:22:30 1987
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References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <23436@sun.uucp> <1879@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
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Summary: comments? why, of course!

In article <1879@ihlpe.ATT.COM>, daryl@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Daryl Monge) writes:
> However, "bit" is useless in terms of user friendliness.  Imagine:
> -rwxr-x---   1 daryl    daryl     3102120bits Feb  6 22:40 gmacs
> word (:-) "character", since at least to me that has some real world meaning.
> ex:
> /e31          (/dev/dsk/36bs2):     12632K characters   33572 unique files
> 
> Comments?
> Daryl Monge

How bout:

drwxrwxrwx 11 foo baz    10 entries frotz     some_dir
---x--x--t  1 bin bin    `size myprog`        myprog      (use your copious
							    immagination)
-rw-rw-rw- 2  joe dbase  47 Srecords	      dbase4	  (S = Sagan = 1
							     billion billions)

There are many metrics that have meaning.  Which to use for a particular
file depends on what you want to do with the file, which I should point
out is not constant for a given file, and on a multiuser machine may even
be more than one thing at a time.  The guy trying to find a place to put
the turkey wants to know how much medium it occupies while the owner wants
to know how many words are in his file so he'll know when he can turn it in.

	Hey! its just a comment... he asked for it... it's his fault!
	Steve Nuchia