[delphizip] File properties, cluster size, etc.
- From: "James Turner" <james.d.h.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:54:45 -0000
I don't think it matters whether you are talking about CD, CDR or CDRW,
different versions of Windows may report different values for cluster sizes
(i.e minimum space used by a file). This is not a fault in high-level code
(e.g. Explorer) but in the lower level stuff. My own program (Maverick)
reads cluster sizes and shows precisely the same inconsistencies. Perhaps
it's a copout, but I decided that even if I managed to work out a way to
calculate the correct size, users would tend to think that my program was at
fault rather than Windows, so I just left it as is.
-- James Turner
www.skaro.net
PS
I use DirectCD under Win 2000 on an external USB drive. So far, it seems to
work perfectly but I haven't carried out the sort of testing I usually do on
such technologies.
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