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- From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Make directory longer?
- Date: 16 Dec 92 04:28:59
- Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
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- In-reply-to: stlucas@gdwest.gd.com's message of 14 Dec 92 23:46:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.234645.19234@gdwest.gd.com>, stlucas@gdwest.gd.com (Joseph St. Lucas) writes:
- ) Is there a way to make the directory on a 1541 handle double the number
- ) of files it currently can ? (memory says > 200, but < 300)
- ) I don't mind using another track to do it, IF it can be done.
-
- If I remember correctly it was 144 files.
-
- It can be done, but you have to not use some of the built-in DOS
- commands on a disk that has been so modified. I saw a program a few
- years ago that will put up to 288 files on the directory by using
- track 19 as well as 18 for directory information.
-
- A better solution would be to get a 1581, of course... with its
- kludgey partition/subdirectory system.
-
- It occurred to me when I found out about that program that you could
- just as easily make a program that would create subdirectories by
- storing directory information in a SEQuential or USeR file, and
- modifying the links on the first sector of the track 18 directory to
- point to it if that directory is selected. One could even write a
- revised DOS ROM for the drive.....
-
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