[Wolves] Text size

[C J Coleman]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:26:10PM +0100, Simon Burke wrote:
> this is a bit of a weird done, can anyone tell me how big one plain text 
> (ASCII) character is in terms of bits or bytes?, i used to know but 
> completely forgotten. The only reason I ask is that i need to find how 
> much plain text data i can have in a 2Tb file. A strange request i know 
> and a 2Tb file is huge and i never intend to reach that size but i need 
> it to prove a point heh.

ASCII is actually 7-bits, but I think it may be stored as one byte.
The C 'char' primitive is one byte, with the positive values of a
'signed char' being ASCII.  Hope that helps,

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