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- From: david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: How many files in a ProDOS directory ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.005645.19163@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 00:56:45 GMT
- References: <1992Aug3.232847.13901@trl.oz.au> <BsFMnw.84G@news.udel.edu>
- Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
- Lines: 14
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- lecates@bach.udel.edu (Roy LeCates) writes:
- >The root
- >directory ALWAYS takes up the same number of blocks on EVERY Prodos
- >disk (from an 800K floppy to a 100Meg hard drive). Interesting, huh?
-
- Except on /RAM in a 128k machine - it only has 1 block and so can only
- hold 12 files. This is also true of the 5.25" Appleworks disk.
-
- With the introduction of P8 v2.0 this is now a fully supported configuration.
- BASIC.SYSTEM 1.5 no longer has problems reading /RAM's catalog. One & Four
- blocks are the only supported root catalog sizes.
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