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Re: DOS 3.3 disk usage

schmidtd wrote:

On Jul 10, 11:14 pm, "Simon D. Williams" <b...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:


I have 64 x 1K files which I need to load from disk (not all at the same
time!). Is it possible then to save them all to a single 64K file and then
access 1K chunks... I believe this can be done in ProDOS, but is it possible
in DOS3.3??


Depends on how you want to access it.  Could your design tolerate
treating the entire disk as your own personal playground?  Then you
could just do direct sector reads/writes and pull in 256 bytes at a
time.  It wouldn't exactly be "files" per se...


Any particular reason not to use ProDOS?  Is disk space that tight?

-michael

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