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From: hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar on floppy
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 09:20:09 -0700
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syntax wrote:
> 
> Alexander Hausner wrote:
> floppy, but it does not put 1.44 MB on disk, only about 1/4 or so.

could it be that your floppy has a 800k worth of filesystem on it?