>The big upside to this is that the programmer doesn't have to worry about this stuff and other related deltails. I mean does anyone really miss having to send escape sequences to the printer?
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>I think that this part of the price of having a pre-emptive multi-tasking operating system. It's the operating system that's in charge, not the application (as it was back in the DOS days).
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Part of the time, I would agree; but I think it is really relevant to know the cluster size. Not for the end-user, most of the time, but for the programmer. How am I to ascertain whether there is space enough for a certain upgrade? Which consists of, say, 10K small files? Depending on the cluster size, the selfsame files can use up 10 MB, or 320 MB!
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
