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Re: DOS 3.3 disk usage
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Paul Schlyter wrote:
Still, your 1024 byte file consumes 1536 bytes of disk space though, i.e.
two excess sectors apart from the 4 sectors needed to store the actual
data.
This is for two reasons:
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Thanks for the explanation. I was using DOS3.3 in hopes of having more free
spaceto play with, however my approach is eveidently not going to work. 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??
-s
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