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[Evan.Molnar@f107.n2605.z1.fidonet.org (Evan Molnar)]

-=> On 27 Nov 93  01:56:09, Victoria M Althoff@1:2605/102 said:

>Does the ProDOS Block Read routine need to know what kind of block it is
>reading, so that it can find the second sector of a ProDOS or Pascal block?
>mean, should someone writing a disk data viewer simply assume the lowest com
>denominator (256-byte sectors) on a disk with an unknown format; or is there
>some kind of signature that tells the block reader it's dealing with blocks
>instead of sectors?  Or do blocks always consist of consecutive disk sectors

ProDOS blocks consist of two sectors.  They're simply read in
one-after-the-other.

Evan