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THE POLICE HAVE REQUESTED ALL FILES UNDER DIRECTORY TITLE RAND.

"Dump it for them at 300 baud."

"Art! Are you sure?"

"We cleaned Rand's directory first thing. Took out everything not routine, then we added a few files. Old engineering catalogs. Maintenance schedules. Ratings of TV shows. Makes a pretty big file---" MILLIE, what is the total stored in Rand's directory?

23,567,892 BYTES

"Good Lord. Art, that will take hours to print out---"

"Yeah, that gives the cops a hobby." [1]

[1] Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Oath of Fealty. New York: Pocket Books, 1981. ISBN 0-671-82802-9, pp. 287--8.




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