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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: Dos->OS/2 communication
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 05:37:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.053740.11922@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <C0AnCD.8K6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1993Jan6.041755.17923@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan6.041755.17923@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- }In article <C0AnCD.8K6@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
- }>Absolute last: Is there a way to make a file that takes up truly no
- }>space other then name-space? i.e. doesn't take up a minimum allocation
- }>unit?
-
- }Under FAT and HPFS, no, I don't think so, unless you're willing to
- }break the rules.
-
- }Under HPFS the minimum allocation is only 512 bytes, regardless of
- }disk size.
-
- Since I'm running OS/2 as write this, a quick test reveals the
- following:
-
- I'm running 4OS2 and as with a Unix shell, you can simply type
-
- >foobar
-
- on a command line, which creates the file foobar to receive the
- standard output of the null command (nothing, not surprisingly).
-
- On both HPFS and FAT systems, this created a zero-length file,
- BUT the free space in the HPFS filesystem was decremented by 512
- while that of the FAT system was unchanged. This evidence suggests
- that the answer is yes for FAT but no for HPFS.
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
- Norman, listen carefully. I am lying. Are you sure your circuits are
- registering? Your ears are green. Logic is a little bird singing in a
- meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
-