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Re: DOS 3.3 disk usage

Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 disk usage
From: schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:37:09 -0700
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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...

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