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- From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
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- Subject: How many Bytes in a Kilobyte (The answer may surprise you.)
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- Date: 12 Dec 92 19:03:50 GMT
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- How many bytes are there in a kilobyte as reported by the Finder in 6.0.7?
- Some simple tests revealed that my Finder thinks there are only about 1010
- bytes per K. For instance my FAX Manager folder is 304,262 bytes. Finder's
- Get Info reports that as 301K. Disk Doubler's Savings command also reports
- that as 301K or about 1010 bytes per kilobyte. SpaceSaver's Magic Menu
- correctly to my way of thinking reports that as 297K or 1024 bytes per kilobyte
- (rounded down by about 0.1K.) Needless to say that different programs can't
- agree on the number of bytes per kilobyte makes comparing the various file
- compression utilities more difficult than it should be. I expect this
- weaseling about bytes/K from hard disk manufacturers but not from the Finder!
- Can anyone explain what's going on? Note that I have tried the obvious, i.e.
- booting with extensions off and looking only at uncompressed files. The Finder
- really seems to think there are only 1010 bytes in a kilobyte.
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- Elliotte Rusty Harold Department of Mathematics
- elharo@m.njit.edu New Jersey Institute of Technology
- erh0362@tesla.njit.edu Newark, NJ 07102
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