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Re: Size Limit

No patch.  The 32Mb partition limit under ProDOS is because a 16-bit
number is used to represent the block count on a disk, so:

65,536 blocks * 512 bytes/block = 32 Mb.

It would require rewriting most of ProDOS to get around the 32Mb limit,
and then it wouldn't be ProDOS anymore. :)

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