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Subj:	Re:Wistful Query


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From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Richard B. Gilbert)
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CC: bsu-cs!cfchiesa@IUVAX.CS.INDIANA.EDU  (Christopher Chiesa)
Subject: Re:Wistful Query

   Christopher Chiesa writes:
>Two of them got "CHECKSUM failed," and the other one unpacked okay and
>then didn't do what it was supposed to do. 

   I have had problems unpacking SHAR files, but I have found that my problems 
have been due to injudicious use of the editor to trim trailers from the 
files.  All of this "End of part 2" sort of thing and even the blank lines
following, belong there.  I have always been able to re-edit the original 
and unpack it successfully.

>For reference, my 'personal' account is 1000 blocks, which is the
>standard limit here, and a 'team' account for Software Design coursework is
>5000 (which still fills up pretty quickly!).  Departmental accounts, the 
>rumor has it, can be up to 20,000 blocks in extreme cases.  How does this
>compare with the "real world?"  I rather expect that WE are VERY cramped in
>comparison!

   My users, who are faculty members or graduate students, are routinely 
given disk quotas of 15,000 blocks.  This is expandable in case of need.
I have had a "group" (several users sharing an account) running GAUSSIAN82,
a very disk hungry program, whose quota was 300,000 blocks.  1000 blocks is
short rations indeed by my standards but you must measure your quota by the
available resources and its adequacy for what you are _supposed_ to be
doing with it.


