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I think Windows rounds off the number. If you right-click the file and
hit Properties you should see the exact number.

If you do WRKLNK and find your way to the file and do Opt 8, you should
also see the number is an exact match for what the text file said it
should be. There is one for the actual size of the object and one for
how much storage it is taking up (more).

-Marty

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date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:53:57 -0600
from: Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject:

I usually get my PTF's (CUME, Groups, etc.) from Fix Central via FTP.
Originally I downloaded them to my PC and cut CD's. Now I download
straight to the image catalogue and cut out the middle man.

Part of the download is a text file with the byte count of each image.
The accompanying text says "The byte count for the PTF file is exact
since the transfer is done in binary." But every time I look at the
downloaded images in Windows Explorer the size is invariably smaller
than what the text specifies.

I always go along blithely (blindly?) and install the PTF's. Never had
a (known) problem, but I was just wondering why the counts differ. If
Windows Explorer is reporting the wrong size, should I be using
something else to check out the image sizes?


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