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March 1998, Week 4

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Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 25 Mar 1998 17:49:43 -0800
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On Mar 24,  2:12pm, Carl Sitherwood wrote:
...    I don't
>      think a week goes by when someone doesn't ask me how many bytes are in
>      a sector because they relate to bytes (or megabytes).

I envision the new LISTF[ILE] format to present all size data in bytes,
maybe with  "(nnn MB)" appended.

>      Jeff, with the implementation of system level variables, could we set
>      a flag to report in bytes vrs sectors?

My preference is to minimize modes, switches, etc.  To solve this problem
I'd rather introduce yet another LISTF format choice.

Jeff Vance, CSY

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