Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:55:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Michael G." <mikegoe@ibm.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cluster Size Message-ID: <19990110195525.Y8886@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901100646.GAA33914@out4.ibm.net>; from Michael G. on Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 01:41:37AM -0500 References: <199901100646.GAA33914@out4.ibm.net>
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On Sunday, 10 January 1999 at 1:41:37 -0500, Michael G. wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:53:42 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>>> What language is this? >>> >>> Isn't it COBOL? :) >> >> None that I have seen. Has it changed since COBOL 85? I would have >> thought it would have to be >> >> 5 FOO PIC X(10) VALUE "HAH! COBOL". > > Well, I was trying to keep my signature to a minimum..but > the code would acutually be something like.. > > WORKING-STORAGE SECTION > > 01 HEAD-LINE. > 05 FILLER PIX X(10) VALUE "YES! > COBOL". I'm pretty sure that most COBOL compilers wouldn't like the line break in the middle there, and of course it's PIC, not PIX. > Oh..and to stay on track with this list, the FreeBSD UFS equivialent > cluster of 8KB is excellent, even compared to the impressive HPFS > put out by IBM for OS/2 which I considered very good after my M$ > exposure. I think you missed the point. The maximum wastage would be a fragment, which is either 512 or 1024 bytes. FreeBSD doesn't have a direct equivalent to a FAT cluster. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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