Re: Transferring Files from one drive to another

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From: Colin Barnhorst (colinbarharst(nojunk)_at_msn.com)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:15:49 -0700

I prefer the Johnny Cochran method: "If it doesn't fit, you must then
quit." :) 

-- 
Colin Barnhorst [MVP  Windows - Virtual Machine]
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"BBUNNY" <bbunny@bqik.net> wrote in message 
news:uelwDHFFFHA.3648@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Ian Hoare wrote:
>>> Salut/Hi Walter Clayton,
>>>
>>> le/on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:29:36 -0500, tu disais/you said:-
>>>
>>>> You indirectly answered the size question. The maximum amount of data
>>>> on a diskette is 1.4M. A couple of pages of a word doc will be less
>>>> than that.
>>>
>>> True, even though Word is a notorious waster of space. 1.44 million
>>> bytes is
>>> 1.44 million characters. That's a fair sized book if it were in ascii.
>>> (Grin).
>>>
>>> Sorry - couldn't resist. I have just been explaining to my wife why a
>>> little file of a few thousand characters could suddenly grow like topsy
>>> just by being saved as RTF, and then grow again by being loaded into a
>>> wordprocessor, because of its capacity for saving much more information.
>>>
>>> I just did the experiment
>>>
>>> a file 18937 bytes in ascii became
>>>
>>> 21185 as rtf - just by having one single font and size applies
>>> throughout the file.
>>>
>>> When loaded and saved as a wordperfect document the identical file took
>>> 32271 bytes
>>>
>>> When loaded into Word and then saved as a word document, it took 47104
>>> bytes.
>>>
>>> OK, 46k is far more than 18k, but my document was about 10 partly empty
>>> pages. A 1.44 Mb diskette should hold 100 pages - even of Word document
>>> if it consisted of nothing but simple text!
>
> You might also add that 1,457,664 bytes on a FAT diskette is only 1.38MB.
> The
> standards with computer technology are really about close to none as one
> could expect.
>
>

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