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Re: DOS 3.3 disk usage



On Jul 9, 10:25 pm, "Simon D. Williams" <b...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
> Most of
> the files are exactly 1024 bytes long, but they use 6 blocks on disk... is
> this normal for DOS or is Copy II+ causing the anomaly?
DOS is counting sectors, not blocks.  A block in ProDOS is 512 bytes;
a sector is 256 bytes.  If you BSAVE JUNK,A$1000,L1024 on ProDOS, it
takes 3.  The same thing on DOS takes 6.