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- From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
- Subject: Re: How many Bytes in a Kilobyte (The answer may surprise you.)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.022003.8598@netcom.com>
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:20:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.140350.1@tesla.njit.edu> erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- Another thing to keep in mind is should you be measuring the physical
- size of files or the logical size of files? Both are valid tests of compression
- since the logical is actually how many bytes of data were saved, but physical
- since the number of blocks saved is really the kicker.
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