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Old 12-30-2003
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alan,

Your file is listed in bytes. the smallest measurement of data commonly used.

If you remember or know anything of metric system:

Kilo ...=1000 bytes
mega =1000 kilo
giga ..=1000 mega
tera ..=1000 giga

If you want to experiment use the "prealloc" command. This will allow you to create files of any size allowed by your filesystem or OS.

prealloc <filename> <size>
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