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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Missing: 5 MB on a Unix PC.
Message-ID: <1501@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 17:20:12 EST
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1501
Posted: Fri Nov 13 17:20:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 10:49:32 EST
References: <381@sdcjove.CAM.UNISYS.COM> <182@toylnd.UUCP> <397@galaxia.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Distribution: comp.sys.att
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <397@galaxia.UUCP> dave@galaxia.RAY.COM (David H. Brierley) writes:
[about System V confusing between kilobytes and blocks]
>I had to read the manual four times and run a test program a dozen times
>before I fully believed that this was really the case.  I had gotten used
>to this type of weirdness on BSD systems but I had never seen it on a SysV
>machine before.

However, 4.3BSD uses kilobytes as indeed every operating system
should.

A block is used internally by the operating system and the user should
not have to know about it unless he so wishes.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi