Re: Defragging a directory?

[tilghman@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Edhel Iaur (drsmooth@relex.com) wrote:
: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

: >Assuming you are referring to the blocks occupied by the directory
: >itself, it is not possible (given a clean disk under ProDOS-8) to create
: >a multi-block subdirectory which is not fragmented, short of a rather
: >convoluted series of create and delete operations.

: I even tried to do something similar to the following in BASIC, to no
: avail:

: CREATE A,TDIR
: BLOAD B,A$2000,TDIR
: BSAVE A,TDIR,A$2000,L[whatEverTheHeckItWas]

I have tried this in the past; it doesn't work EVER.  I tried it
because my early version of Appleworks 4.0.2 was (for some weird
reason) changing a directory file (TDIR) to an Appleworks WP (AWP)
file. 

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