Re: DOS Master, invisibility, and solutions

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Don wrote:
> "mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote in message
> 1174272771.669148.182890@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com">news:1174272771.669148.182890@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> <Snip>
>
> > The Apple Pascal world has an equivalent of DOS Master known as the
> > Pascal Profile Manager, which thanks to the wizardry of Willi, now
> > works with all SmartPort devices, not just the ProFile. Where the two
>
> </Snip>
>
> Can you expand on this comment?  I've been trying for years to get Profile
> Manager to work with non-ProFile devices [specifically a CMS SCSI card
> installed in an Apple ][+].  Is there any chance that similar "Wizardry"
> would enable me to get this to work?
>
> I really prefer the way Pascal managed large volumes [as multiple smaller
> devices] rather than a single large device [as in Pascal 3 with ProDOS].
> Most of my code had may small files and you soon run out of  directory space
> because of the fixed maximum number of entries.

But providing a tree-structured directory structure, as ProDOS does,
is a much more general solution to this problem.

It was actually the very primitive free-space management scheme that
Pascal used which required partitioning into smaller logical volumes.

-michael

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