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SIZE Art Merrill
Purpose: Calculates the storage requirements of a file or group of files, based
on the number of DOS clusters necessary to make floppy disk and hard
disk copies.
Format: SIZE [d:] (all files, default directory)
or
SIZE [d:][path]filename[.ext]
Remarks: DOS stores files in fixed-length allocation units called "clusters."
For floppy disks, the cluster size is 1024 bytes (two 512-byte
sectors); for the PC and XT 10-Mb hard disk the cluster size is 4084
bytes. On such a hard disk, whether a file is one byte or 4Kb in
actual length (as reported by DIR), it requires the same amount (one
cluster) of storage space. The PC AT's 20-Mb hard disk is less
wasteful in handling small files; its minimum set-aside (cluster
size) is 2048 bytes. AT users should use ATSIZE.COM.
Entered without parameters, SIZE (or ATSIZE) returns the number of
bytes used by all files in the current directory, the amount of space
required to copy them to a standard (360K) floppy disk, and the
amount of space required for hard disk storage.
Entering B:SIZE returns the same information for a disk in drive B:.
Pathnames and wildcards are supported, so you could enter
SIZE \PROG\*.COM
to learn the number of .COM files, their total size and storage
requirements, contained in your \PROG subdirectory.