Re: can DOS 3.3 sector be larger than 256 bytes?

[gkomatsu@uhunix3.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <37uk48$5it@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> Robert Jensen <jensen@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> writes:
>There are two bytes in the DOS 3.3 volume table of contents that
>hold the number of bytes per sector.  Does DOS 3.3 use this value
>for anything, or does it just assume 256 bytes per sector?  Is that
>part of the VTOC just there for compatibility with some never
>realized upgrade?

	...if it were only that simple... =^)

	It's possible, but requires more than just fiddling with that
number.  Don't ask me how though, I don't know...  Many years back
nibble had a program sporting "ultra fast pictures" or somesuch.  What
it did was (I think) turn each track in to two sectors, the first was
a small one containing file information and the latter was a mondo huge
sector to hold a entire hi-res screen.  Thus when it loaded pictures
it would only have to load one sector.
	I don't know what issue it's in, I sold off all my nibbles.
(hope all those buyers are enjoying them. =^)
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