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- From: taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao)
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- Subject: How many files in a ProDOS directory ?
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 08:21:49 GMT
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- sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes...
- >
- >Odds are if you have a "32-meg" partition, it probably isn't set to
- >exactly 65536 blocks. I have a "40-meg" drive split into two "20-meg"
- >partitions, but neither of the partitions is exactly 40960 blocks in
- >size.
-
- Why not? Perhaps it depends on the partitioning software. I have
- exactly 40960 blocks on my 20-meg boot partition and exactly 65536
- blocks on each of the remaining three 32-meg partitions (using the
- RamFAST software). The drive itself usually isn't an integer number
- of megabytes though.
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