Microsoft KB Archive/96514

= Difference Between the DIR /C and DIR /CH Commands =

Article ID: 96514

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 95

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This article was previously published under Q96514



SUMMARY
The DIR command has two switches that you can use to display compression ratio information: /C and /CH.
 * /C displays the compression ratio of a file assuming that it resides on a drive using 8-kilobyte (K) clusters.
 * /CH uses the cluster size of the host partition.

In most cases, there is no difference between the output of these switches unless your DoubleSpace host partition uses a cluster size other than 8 kilobytes. For example, if you have a file on a drive using 4K clusters, the compression ratio displayed generated from DIR /C would be 1.5; DIR /CH would generate a compression ratio of 2.0.

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Keywords: KB96514

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