Re: Bad Metric ... 1k = 1024 or 1000?

["Charles A. Plater" <ab3189@wayne.edu>]

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jonINTERNETrelayCHAT-2810992003010001@nn-157-22-180-143.napanet.net, Jon
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jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet wrote on 10/28/99 10:59 PM:

> What gave me that impression was that the Get Info box said a 143360 byte
> disk image was 143KB. Shortly after I posted that message, I started to
> think that it just might be rounding it off to the nearest sector.

Ok - 143 * 1024 = 146432.  The reason the file is taking up more space on
the disk is that the disk is formatted in 1k blocks (at least w/ HFS+, this
is the smallest block size.) Therefore the file takes up some extra space on
the HD.
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