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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!walter!att!ucbvax!gnh-cathouse.cts.com!ncp
  2. From: ncp@gnh-cathouse.cts.com (Neal Pitts)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
  4. Subject: Re: Apple II RWTS codes.
  5. Message-ID: <m0mNh96-000130C@crash.cts.com>
  6. Date: 27 Aug 92 10:44:33 GMT
  7. Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
  8. Organization: The Internet
  9. Lines: 11
  10. X-Unparsable-Date: Tue Aug 25 92 at 10:38:16 (EST)
  11.  
  12. >> The stuff in DOS 3.3 reads the raw data and then analyzes it,
  13. while the ProDOS routine analyzes it while it's reading (where analyze ==
  14. convert from 6+2 encoding to plain data). <<
  15.  
  16. Is there any good reason for ProDOS to do this?  I would think that it would
  17. have taken the speed penalty for a good reason...
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  20. ncp                          ncp@gnh-cathouse
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