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- From: barnhoorn@nlev00 ()
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: File sizes
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 09:26:30 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Bell
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- Message-ID: <4h3rg6$87i@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be>
- References: <4gd9pu$cpr@mn5.swip.net> <WXQ7y*5+f@yaps.rhein.de> <4gjs20$i68@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> <Dn81zD.H5M.0.-s@cs.vu.nl> <4grop1$puv@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> <DnDvp3.5Mt.0.-s@cs.vu.nl>
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- In article <DnDvp3.5Mt.0.-s@cs.vu.nl>, irmen@cs.vu.nl (Irmen de Jong) writes:
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- >Anyway, how often are you interested in the file size after decrunching?
- >Myself: 0 times so far. I only care about the actual file size on disk.
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- I'm sometimes interested in the size of a file, after decrunching: when
- you want to load the complete file into memory, you have to know the
- correct file-size in order to allocate enough memory for it.
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- Jaco Barnhoorn barnie@xs4all.nl
- Software Test Engineer barnhoorn%nlev00@btmv56.se.bel.alcatel.be
- Alcatel Telecom Systems
- Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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