In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/18/2008
   at 04:26 PM, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>It's always best to consider the audience; I got into the habit of 
>referring to the 256-byte data portion of the actual record as the 
>directory block, ignoring the key and count portions, when talking to 
>application folks.

Doesn't that confuse them when they need to specify sizes? Or do they add
in a large enough fudge factor that it doesn't cause problems?
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
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