Re: Defragging a directory?

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur)]

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]

And, of course, whenever I tried to do something about it with Copy
][+, it totally didn't understand what I wanted to do.
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