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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] some problems
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:47:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010829134756.7A5D219A4C@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

The original plan9.ini is padded to 512 bytes
to make it easy to edit disk images on the fly
when we send them to you -- we can edit just
that sector and not worry about changing the 
length in the DOS directory structure.  You
needn't worry about keeping it at 512 bytes.

Russ


             reply	other threads:[~2001-08-29 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-29 13:47 Russ Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-27  3:48 jmk
2001-08-26 20:04 geerten kuiper
2001-08-26 21:04 ` Martin Harriss
2001-08-29  9:04   ` geerten kuiper

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