chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (06/08/89)
According to jim@applix.com (Jim Morton):
>Remember that unlike Xenix filesystem blocks, these are 1k blocks [...]
Just a note: Xenix filesystem blocks >are< 1K. Many utilities, such as ls
and du, print statistics in "blocks" of 512 bytes; but you can tell it's a
subterfuge, since a one-byte file occupies >two< 512-byte "blocks".
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