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- From: rcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (rcollins)
- Subject: Re: ProDOS files vs. disk
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.031906.15391@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 03:19:06 GMT
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- ST2975@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU writes:
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- >I seemed to have noticed that files on my disks aren't exactly
- >contiguous. There seem to be 512 byte 'holes' on the disk that
- >separate different files' data. Is this an optimization of
- >ProDOS? Can I write a disk utility that can move the files'
- >data closer together and change the directory structure to reflect
- >the change using read_block/write_block and read/write?
- >I'm using ProDOS v1.9 currently. Am I imagining things as usual?
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- Andy,
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- Hi! I believe Prosel does the optmization of data you are speeking of
- here. I'm not aware of any PD/Sharewae utils available to do this though.
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- Have a happy New Year.
- Randy
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