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From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
Subject: Problem with 386MAX 6.01 and 4DOS 4.01
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:32:46 GMT


Has anyone else had trouble using 386MAX's MAXIMIZE program while 4DOS
4.01 is loaded?  When MAXIMIZE does the Phase 1 reboot, and then tries
to run the BATPROC program, BATPROC fails with an "Out of Memory"
error.  It only works if I disable 4DOS and use COMMAND.COM, run
MAXIMIZE, and then reenable 4DOS.  The problem is, 4DOS takes up some
space in upper memory, so it messes up all the tuning that MAXIMIZE
just did.  This isn't a big problem, as it only costs me about 10K of
memory right now, but it's kind of a pain.  I've checked all the
386MAX and 4DOS documentation, but I can't find any mention of this
problem.  (In fact, the 4DOS docs go so far as to recommend 386MAX as
a good memory manager, but do not mention this problem).

Thanks,

Paul
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Hijaak:  Info Please
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:51:16 GMT
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

I'm interesting in a graphics format conversion program and 
have heard much about Hijaak.  Does anyone have a phone number
at which I can contact them?

Thanks.

Terry Chan
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: als@vl.ts.kiev.ua (Alexander Shehovtsov)
Subject: Re: Computers For Russia _    _   _   _  ___  _   _ _____  ____  ___	___	/ \  / \  |\_/|  |  \ |   |   |    |	 |  \  /   \     
Reply-To: als@vl.ts.kiev.ua
Organization: TechnoSoft
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 18:13:57 -0400

>   Many have heard that computer education in former Soviet Union is awful.  As a
>   russian exchange student, I can confirm it.  In fact, most high school
>   programming is taught on what we call "paper computers" (grader executing the
>   program in their head)!  Others are using toys similar to Commodore.  Even
>   university students are forced to learn FORTRAN and COBOL on hopelessly obsolete
>   Hewlett Packard and IBM dinosaurs (i.e. pirated clones).

    Hi, Victor!

    May be you were russian student too far ago, or Russia really more poor
country than Ukraine :-) I was graduated from Kiev State University at 1989.
At that time I had a practice of working with IBM/360, PDP-11 (really pirated
clones) and I knew their OS/360 and UNIX. As to the languages, we learned
PL/1, C, assembly for IBM/360, PDP-11 and Hewlett Packard. At that times
University really had no any PC but nowadays it has them enough to make
practical courses for students with programmers specialization.

    And I had never heard term "paper computers" during my studying at Kiev.

>
>   Since high schools and universities are still exclusively state-(un)supported,
>   situation is not going to improve soon.

    Really?

>   Also, please forward this article to sites that may be interested in our
>   suggestion: computer leasing companies, universities with large CS department
>   etc.
>   --
>   NOTE: LOGOS BTI is a nonprofit organization, therefore this article shouldn't
>   be considered to be commercial use of Internet.


    During the last time I have seen at our newspapers many propositions
of second hand computers from different firms. They propose their PC's
with low prices but I think that they make commerce with them.

>
>   Also, sorry if you read this outside US. ucbvax.berkeley.edu seams to ignore
>   Distribution: line in mail header.

    Don't worry. It is really interesting for us, poor people from former
Soviet Union to read such letters. They don't describe our economic situation
but describe well opinion of former Soviet Union citizens and inform about
business they do in US.
-- 
Alexander Shehovtsov,      (044) 266-70-28 (9:00 - 18:00 Kiev, Ukraine) voice
           als@vl.ts.kiev.ua    Relcom | 2:463/30.5  or  2:463/34.4   FidoNet
                                                       


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,ics.general
From: hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck)
Subject: Re: [HELP] Decompression Tool for *.lzh
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:49:42 GMT

>>>>> On 28 Jul 92 05:51:33 GMT, nguyengp@net2.ICS.UCI.EDU (Tom Fan) said:


Tom> I have no idea of how to decompress a *.lzh file.
Tom> Any pointer would help.

What you need is lharc.  It can be gotten from a mailserver to SIMTEL.


Directory PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
LHA213.EXE    B   44416  910807  LHA archiver v2.13 has better comp. than ZIP
LHARCSRC.ARC  B   56714  890628  TurboC/OPTASM source code for LHarc & its SFX



Send the following mail message, be sure to have NO SIGNATURE.  If you
don't want the source, don't add the last line

To:  uunet!vm1.nodak.edu!listserv
From:  you

/PDGET PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>LHA213.EXE UUENCODE
/PDGET PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>LHARCSRC.ARC UUENCODE




The file LHA213.EXE is a self extracting archive and will give you the
MSDOS version of LHARC.EXE and all the documentation.  The source must
be unpacked with PKARC and it will require Turbo C and OPTASM to build
it. 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dc22@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Dieter Christensen)
Subject: SCSI driver source wanted
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:13:07 GMT

HELLO SCUZZY PEOPLE!  I'm looking for SCSI driver source code...

	We are looking for source code which will enable us to cause a
PC (the server) to pretend to be a CD-ROM drive on a SCSI bus
connected to a second PC (the client).  This emulation will occur as
follows.  The client PC will establish a SCSI connection with the
server PC and submit a read request.  At this point the server PC will
issue a disconnect to the client.  When the bus is free, the server
will establish a connection with a real CD-ROM drive which is on the
same bus.  The server will re-issue the read request, handle any
disconnects/reconnects which may be issued by the drive, and
eventually receive the data.  The server will massage the data,
reconnect with the client, and send the data over.

	I would very much like to obtain some source for a driver to
get started, as time pressure prohibits starting from scratch.  This
source wants to drive either a commercially available SCSI board, or
an available SCSI interface chip, for which parts data can also be
obtained.

	Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
	I mean, _e_n_o_r_m_o_u_s_l_y_ appreciated, because disassembling
	existing drivers is no fun at all.
	
	Please email to dc22@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu 




Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: thesame@engin.umich.edu (Stephen Su)
Subject: Gateway 2000 Borland C++ 3.1 and Paradox 4.0
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 16:00:22 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: usa

I called Gateway today and found out that Borland C++ 3.1 will NOT be shipping
until Paradox 4.0 is available near the end of August. The voice mail
explanation by Ted Waitt had said that the C++ would be shipping before
Paradox.  I don't realistically expect either one to show up at my door before
the middle of September.  Oh, well.
Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.misc:4550 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:10979
From: hvisage@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za (Hendrik Visage)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,ics.general
Subject: Re: [HELP] Decompression Tool for *.lzh
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:16:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: rkw-risc.hvisage.712448188
Organization: University of Pretoria, South Africa

nguyengp@net2.ICS.UCI.EDU (Tom Fan) writes:


>Hi Netters,

>I have no idea of how to decompress a *.lzh file.
>Any pointer would help.

>Thanks,
>Tom Phan


Use LHarc -x filename, or Ice -x filename.LZH. 
 Ice is (or rather was) LHarc ver 1.14

HEndrik Visage
From: mike@atlas.physchem.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Kuch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Help with NCSA Telnet trouble...
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:20:26 GMT
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG

cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ) writes:

>In article <1992Jul22.100758.1773@bvc.edu>, tim@bvc.edu writes:
... stuff deleted ...

>1.  Get the latest version - 2.3.05.  It's available from NCSA's ftp
>site (sorry - temporarily forgotten the name).

The adress of the NCSA-Site is: 141.142.20.50 (zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu)
The NCSA-TCPIP is in the directory /PC/Tcpip.

Michael Kuch 


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From: eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Command Recall programs
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 09:05:03 CDT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

STACK.COM is a utility which saves your last 15 DOS commands for recall 
without re-typing.  
 
It works great!  But it disables the buffers which DOS provides at F1 and 
F3.  
 
I want everything!  I want STACK.COM  *AND*  F1 & F3!  
 
Is there a command-recall program which retains use of the F1 and F3 
buffers?
 
        eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Help with NCSA Telnet trouble...
From: cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ)
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:07:06 +1200
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <1992Jul22.100758.1773@bvc.edu>, tim@bvc.edu writes:

>    I am having difficulty configuring a 3com Ethernet Card for a 286/16
> PC clone.  All of the tests on the card pass.  I am using NCSA TELNET 
> ver. 2.3.03.  When I finish a Telnet session, I can no longer access the
> A or B drives on the PC.  I get a DATA ERROR or GENERAL ERROR READING.
> The diskette is not the problem.  It works fine in the same machine prior
> to a Telnet session.  I have tried a ton of memory address, i/o address
> and IRQ combinations, and the result is always the same.  The card works
> fine, but I loose the A and B drives.  The hard drive still works fine.
 
Hmmmmm .. I've set up and run NCSA Telnet on a large number and wide
diversity of machines and never seen anything similar to this.

Two suggestions.

1.  Get the latest version - 2.3.05.  It's available from NCSA's ftp
site (sorry - temporarily forgotten the name).

2.  If the problem persists, get hold of a MARK/RELEASE like program
pair and see if marking and releasing around Telnet fixes problem.  If
so, Telnet is not properly releasing some memory and/or interrupts -
report immediately to the bug report email address mentioned in the
docs.

Have you tried using a packet driver and configuring Telnet to use that
- does the problem persist?

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 Nick FitzGerald, PC Applications Consultant, CSC, Uni of Canterbury, N.Z.
 n.fitzgerald@csc.canterbury.ac.nz    (64)(3)  642-337 Voice,  642-332 FAX
From: ankleand@mtl.mit.edu (Andrew Karanicolas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Upgrading an IBM PC
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:02:13 GMT
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories

Hello,

I've got an IBM PC (the real thing) in lab that I would like to use
with an Audio Precision System One signal generator and DSP processor.

The PC has 640K of memory and a 10M hard disk.  It has a monochrome
Amdek monitor.  The machine is about 8 years old.

(1) Can anyone tell me what kind of video output this PC has?  Is it
among things like CGA, EGA or VGA?  If not, can the video be upgraded
to something like VGA?

(2) The machine has no mouse.  Can I add a mouse to this beast?

(2) The PC is running MSDOS version 3.0  Would it be a good idea to
upgrade to 5.0?  I have no room for windows on the hard disk however.

Since a PC is required to operate the AP System One, I would like to
use this machine as it seems to work fine.

Please send e-mail if you can help.  Thank you.

-- 
Andrew Karanicolas
MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
ankleand@mtl.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: joelfire@leland.Stanford.EDU ( Firehammer)
Subject: recursively delete subdirs?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 18:32:27 GMT

Hi.  does anyone know of a method to recursively delete all subdirectories
lower than your current directory, including their files?  I've writing a 
little batch file that uses Lharc to archive seldom used directories, and
need a way to remove the subdirectories within the batch file after they've
been compressed.  If you have an answer, please respond by personal mail.
Thanks,
-joel
joelfire@leland.stanford.edu
From: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Command Recall programs
Date: 26 Jul 92 16:10:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Jul26.161044.18718
Reply-To: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert) says:

>STACK.COM is a utility which saves your last 15 DOS commands for recall 
>without re-typing.  
> 
>It works great!  But it disables the buffers which DOS provides at F1 and 
>F3.  
> 
>I want everything!  I want STACK.COM  *AND*  F1 & F3!  
> 
>Is there a command-recall program which retains use of the F1 and F3 
>buffers?

MSDOS 5.0 comes with a TSR utility (DOSKEY.COM) that does precisely
that.  I believe that DRDOS 6.0 has this built into the shell kernel.

Ashok
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From: eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: DOS Command Stacker & ReTyper
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:06:30 GMT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

Thanks to the folks who suggested that the DOS COMMAND re-typing programs 
which I am looking for (which don't disable the F1 and F3 buffers) are 
available in DOS 5 (keystack) and Norton (NDOS is really 4DOS).  
 
I own & use both DOS 5 and Norton 6, and discovered that NDOS is only 
practical if your machine has extra memory or a very fast harddisk (mine 
hasn't).  My machine is an older 286-AT with 640K ram and a slow disk: 
NDOS wants 80,000 bytes of my ram!  If I had extra memory, NDOS would 
swap itself in-and-out, thus needing only 4000 bytes ram.  NDOS can swap 
itself in-and-out using the harddisk as memory, but on a slow disk the 
wait is amazingly long!  
 
So, the search continues.  A few minutes ago, I found a program called 
"TODDY" which is a tiny stacker.  If it's remarkable, I'll post a remark.
 
         eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert)
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
Subject: Re: Computers For Russia _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _____ ____ ___ ___ / \ / \ |\_/| | \ | | | | | \ / \
Organization: CompuData Inc.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:57:33 GMT

als@vl.ts.kiev.ua (Alexander Shehovtsov) writes:

>>   Many have heard that computer education in former Soviet Union is awful.  As a

>    Don't worry. It is really interesting for us, poor people from former
>Soviet Union to read such letters. They don't describe our economic situation
>but describe well opinion of former Soviet Union citizens and inform about
>business they do in US.

Now, now fellows - let's not get into political squabbling here. Things are 
bad enough everywhere. I'm sure there are not enough computers in education 
anywhere. It's only a matter of scale.
Fred
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609-386-6846    bang:uunet!cdin-1!icdi10!fr
From: lele@violet.berkeley.edu (Sharachchandra Lele;100 BldgT-4;26886;5106440692;NT23)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DRDOS-6 SLACKSPACE
Date: 25 Jul 1992 06:56:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu
Summary: Slack space cannot be eliminated

In article <709746269.F00001@csource.oz.au> Brian.Bloomer@f386.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Brian Bloomer) writes:
>I'VE FOUND DRDOS-6 EXCELLENT HOWEVER,MY 40MG. HARDDISK COMPRESSED OUT TO 84
>MB'S, UNFORTUNATELY ONLY 56 MB'S CAN BE UTILISED 25 MG'S ARE TAKEN UP WITH 25
>MB'S OF SLACK SPACE. COULD ANYONE EXPLAIN SLACK SPACE AND IF POSSIBLE HOW TO
>OVERCOME THIS THAT IS,IF IT CAN BE.
>ANY ASSISTANCE WOULD BE VERY WELLCOME.
>

I am not sure all the discussion about cluster size etc. has really
answered Brian's question, which is: if he has a 40MB harddisk, why
does he not get the full 80 MB indicated after compression?

I have been using DRDOS-6 w/ Superstor for quite some time, and have
noticed the same problem. I called DRI and also had an email reply from
their techsup group. Basically, SSTOR does not give a GUARANTEED
compression ratio of 2:1. The actual compression achieved depends upon
the type of file being compressed. Thus, e.g., a .WK1 file often gets
compressed to LESS than 50% of its original size. The same is true of
many other "data" file formats. On the other hand, .EXE and similar
program files cannot get compressed to that extent. Thus, when I load
lots of software on my 20MB (physical) harddisk, I don't get the 40MB
I would wish to, but rather end up with around 32MB. (this was
confirmed by Toshiba's technical support group too).

I have tried to verify this by monitoring the slack space thru XTGOLD.
And I find that if I load a whole bunch of data files, the slack space
actually DECREASES, which is what one expects if the data files are
getting compressed by more than factor of 2.

In short, you cannot do anything about the slack space, it is a fact of
life with the compression setup. "Dont load so much software" is the
only suggestion that i can give!

--Sharad Lele
Energy & Resource Group
Univerity of California, Berkeley

Electronic-mail:	lele@violet.berkeley.edu	(Internet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin)
Subject: Re: Hijaak:  Info Please
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:49:44 GMT

On 27 Jul 92 22:51:16 GMT, twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) said:

> I'm interesting in a graphics format conversion program and have heard much
> about Hijaak.  Does anyone have a phone number at which I can contact them?

My wife responds:

HiJaak is what I use at work (fairly successfully, too). They have 4 versions,
each targeted a little differently (DOS, Windows, ColorSeparator, PS -
Postscript to FAX). Their phone number is 1-800-374-6738 (1-800-DRI-NSET)

Karen via Daniel
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From: kevin.fong@uttsbbs.uucp (Kevin Fong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: SMARTDRIVE
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:14:00 GMT
Reply-To: kevin.fong@uttsbbs.uucp (Kevin Fong)
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591

Does anyone know if a 5 meg cache using smartdrv (the one with Windows
3.0/3.1 -- smartdrv.exe _not_ smartdrv.sys) is beneficial?  I was told
that a 2 meg cache was about the limit of usefulness for smartdrv.

Kevin (kevin.fong%uttsbbs%boo@pacbell.com)
From: nigrin@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de (Markus Nigrin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Wanted: EAN BARCODE Utilities
Keywords: EAN BARCODE
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:27:52 GMT
Organization: University of Passau, Germany

Hi,
I'm searching for utilities in C or CLIPPER to print out EAN Barcode and decrypt it via Barcode reader.
Does anyone know a PC magazine, where EAN Barcode readers (lightpens, etc.) were tested.

If you know anything, which could help me, please send me a mail...

nigrin@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
Subject: Re: where do I go to ask....
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 05:45:58 GMT

hurd@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd) writes:

>Hi, I'm having a bit of a hard time with my WP, I don't seem to have 
>access to a newsgroup for WP, such as that for Desqview &c I can get 
>here.  Can anyone tell me where I can drop a WP question?
> (Incidentally, I've got this Candian WP that uses the WP{WP}UK.LEX
>lexicon, but when I run spell check, the damn think says can't find
>WP{WP}US.LEX, and then when I tell it to use another lexicon (WP{WP}UN.LEX
>one would assume) it passes everything as being correctly spelt.  So the
>question is: How do I tell the damn program to use UK spelling not 
>Benjamin Franklin's mess/lex?)
>Thanks,
>-P.

If you use the spell utility (simply run  spell.exe ), you can set 
WP{WP}UK.LEX as the main dictionary ... this works fine for me ...

-- 
Samuel Ko (kko@sfu.ca), exceptionally smart ...
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: ankleand@mtl.mit.edu (Andrew Karanicolas)
Subject: Re: Upgrading an IBM PC (Correction)
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:29:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.010213.10263@athena.mit.edu> ankleand@mtl.mit.edu (Andrew Karanicolas) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I've got an IBM PC (the real thing) in lab that I would like to use

Sorry folks, I forgot to mention that the machine in question is a
PC XT.  Makes some difference, no :)

The monitor presently is an amber Amdek Video 310A

-- 
Andrew Karanicolas
MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
ankleand@mtl.mit.edu
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:45:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: DRDOS-6 SLACKSPACE
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc

lele@violet.berkeley.edu (Sharachchandra Lele) writes:

>In article <709746269.F00001@csource.oz.au> Brian.Bloomer@f386.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Brian Bloomer) writes:
>>I'VE FOUND DRDOS-6 EXCELLENT HOWEVER,MY 40MG. HARDDISK COMPRESSED OUT TO 84
>>MB'S, UNFORTUNATELY ONLY 56 MB'S CAN BE UTILISED 25 MG'S ARE TAKEN UP WITH 25
>>MB'S OF SLACK SPACE. COULD ANYONE EXPLAIN SLACK SPACE AND IF POSSIBLE HOW TO
>>OVERCOME THIS THAT IS,IF IT CAN BE.
>>ANY ASSISTANCE WOULD BE VERY WELLCOME.
>>
>
>I am not sure all the discussion about cluster size etc. has really
>answered Brian's question, which is: if he has a 40MB harddisk, why
>does he not get the full 80 MB indicated after compression?
[explanation about *non* guaranteed 2:1 compression ratio deleted]

  I don't want to pick nits, but on June 30, i.e. only two days after
Brian's posting, I already gave an explanation of "slack space" which is
quite similar to the one you gave. The problem is that we do not know
for sure what Brian means by slack space (i.e. as I mentioned it means
different things to different people) and Brian never gave the
clarification which I asked for. I will e-mail him (and you) a copy of
this, so perhaps we may still find out what the heck he meant. :-)

Frank Slootweg
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc