[Wolves] Text size

[Simon Burke]

C J Coleman wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 02:26:10PM +0100, Simon Burke wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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cheers, i think i can work it out form there cheers.