Mike McClain writes:
> I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had
> no storage

Likewise.

> ...and my first hard drive was 20M...

Likewise.

> ...so having a directory taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is
> less than 10KB just doesn't sit well with me.

I have 278GB of unused disk space on this machine.  3.5MB "wasted" does
not bother me at all.  Back when I was coding in hex for the RCA 1802
and using audio cassettes for storage I worried about single bytes.
Times have changed.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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