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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Zero-length files
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.052918.7329@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:29:18 GMT
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- Robert Gammon (5692330@mcimail.com) wrote:
- > In article <1ierslINNriq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> al919@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bruce Halco) writes:
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-
- > Ahh, but this is not what the original poster was seeking. Yes, this
- > creates a file with a listed size of 0 bytes, BUT, a minimum allocation
- > unit is still used (512 bytes, a single sector with HPFS, more with FAT).
- > Our PC file systems insist on allocating at least one allocation unit to
- > every file (not an unreasonable assumption since most of us have little or
- > no need for such capability).
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- Bzzzt: In FAT at least, a zero length file has no clusters/allocation units
- assigned to it. If you look at the directory with something like Norton's
- you'll find a 0 entry (If I remember correctly) in the first cluster
- entry.
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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